Responsible for a investigation on the international coordination in terms of retreats mandatory, the Court of Audit wished to alert Olivier Véran, Minister of Solidarity and Health, on several points: the absence of quantified data on the number and amounts of pensions paid in this context, the necessary clarification of the actors of the coordination, and the treatments unequal pension rights between international and French careers. Focus.
International coordination: in terms of pensions, the absence of figures
The Court of Auditors regrets that no figures exist on the number and pension amounts paid by french diets within the framework of international coordination, nor on the amounts of pensions paid to the same beneficiaries by foreign regimes.
This lack of data does not make it possible to verify whether insured persons who have worked in a foreign country actually exercise their rights to a supplementary pension.
The data published by the Center for European and International Social Security Liaisons (CLEISS), which does not “ do not overlap with the scope of the coordination mechanisms ”, however, tend to show a high rate of non-recourse, ” which must be confirmed “.
Clarify the role of international coordination actors
In France, the organization of the international coordination of compulsory pensions involves many players:
- The Directorate of Social Security (DSS) and the Directorate of French abroad and the consular administration, responsible for negotiating and signing bilateral coordination agreements
- The CLEISS, responsible for ensuring the proper implication of conventions ” even though the plans are on the front line when it comes to questions from policyholders ”
The positioning of CLEISS prevents it from fully exercising its responsibilities, regrets the Court of Auditors, which considers that it should be more clearly ” responsible for legal expertise and analysis of data and their evolution, and positioned as the sole interlocutor of partners abroad in the application of agreements ”.
The French schemes, for their part, should strengthen the quality of their service offering to policyholders, by specializing the services in charge of settling pensions under international coordination.
International careers and French careers: unequal treatment
The coordination rules have unfortunately not had the effect of leading to equal treatment between policyholders with an international career and those having an equivalent career in France:
- This is particularly the case for self-employed, too often excluded from the benefit of bilateral agreements: of the 38 existing agreements, only 13 concern them;
- People who have worked in more than 2 countries, at least one of which is outside Community regulations, are also at a disadvantage: they cannot add up the periods worked in each country, even if they are countries with an agreement;
- Sometimes, inequalities can be in favor of workers in a situation of mobility: the resumption of activity after liquidation of the French pension from the general system (combination of employment and retirement) allows the accumulation of rights and may give rise to a new liquidation in France if this resumption of activity is carried out abroad, where a person in combination of employment and retirement on French territory will not accumulate rights to retirement during this period
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