If you have been unemployed after your military service, you may have lost quarters of retirement. MP Corentin Le Fur has just tabled a bill to put an end to this particularity.
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– If you have been unemployed after military service, you may not get quarters of retirement.
This is called a hole in the racket. And when it comes to retirement, it’s far from being the first… nor the last. If you don’t know all the precise rules of the system, you are not safe from a bad surprise. This is exactly what a future retiree was faced with, coming to present his problem to the office of Corentin Le Fur, Les Républicains des Côtes-d’Armor MP. He expressed his surprise at not seeing quarters of retirement appear for his period of unemployment, after his military service.
Nothing abnormal though. This is a subtlety of the rules surrounding the pension plan. In fact, the periods of unemployment which immediately follow military service do not give rise to the right to validation of quarters, if the person concerned had not previously acquired the status of socially insured person, that is to say he had not worked before his service. To be able to hope to see your quarters counted in the event of unemployment, you must have been registered with the general system and have paid contributions to old age insurance. And even though the general rule is that you must have worked before, there are exceptions. “This is the case, for example, of people who contributed to the agricultural regime before their departure under the flag”notes Corentin Le Fur.
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Several thousand people affected?
To put an end to this situation, the elected official from Côtes-d’Armor submitted a bill to the National Assembly allowing to grant quarters to these insured persons who experienced unemployment after their military service. “These are side effects which are hard to anticipate but which really concern people’s lives”he judges. Without these quarters acquired during the period of unemployment, some will have to work longer than expected. Although he does not currently quantify the number of future retirees in this case, he estimates that “This probably concerns a few thousand people..
At the moment, the MP does not know when this bill can be discussed. “This text could be transpartisan, that is to say co-signed by other groups”he hopes. If this is the case, he will then be able to take advantage of one of the slots offered to debate a transpartisan bill. Another possibility: study this proposal within the framework of the Republicans’ parliamentary niche, a day of debate devoted to texts tabled by the same political group. To make this happen faster, Corentin Le Fur is also studying the possibility of tabling an amendment to the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS), currently under debate in the National Assembly.
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