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France
Total population (m.):  62.6
GDP per capita (USD):  33674
 

2012

The age of retirement to be raised more rapidly
 

2011

The 2010 Reform of the French Old-Age Pension Program
 

2010

Adoption of the draft pension reform bill
Presentation of draft pension reforms
New measures for unemployed workers who have exhausted their entitlements
 

2009

Incentives to return to work and tackle poverty
Employing the older workers
 

2008

Reform of the special schemes
 

2007

Introduction of leave of absence for family support
Draft Agreement on employment accidents and occupational disease
Fighting Social Security Fraud
A new benefit to replace the minimum old-age benefit
 

2006

Strengthening integration provisions
Major changes in benefits for children
Social housing: prevention of eviction and simplification of procedures
 

2005

Changes in the contributory minimum
Parental leave and parental attendance allowance to be amended
Extension of old-age insurance period for persons having raised a handicapped child
Increase in social insurance deductions on retirement pensions
New conditions for award of survivors' benefits
Reform of the minimum old-age pension
Changes in rules for pensions while working
Adjustment of doctors' fees
Survivors' pension: age<N>requirement to be phased out
Extra-legal benefits for seamen who are working or in receipt of a pension
Income ceilings for allocation of extra-legal benefits to seamen
Rules on concurrent pension/employment for adult disabled orphans of seamen
 

2004

Three-year programme for sickness insurance reform
Principle of price-indexing pensions to be made permanent
Scope of old-age insurance broadened for parents at home
Redeployment leave to be taken into account
Changes to phased retirement
Reduction in the pension rate (décote")"
Pension increase for continuing work after age 60
Increase in insurance period for those aged over 65
Measures concerning the basic salary used to calculate pensions
Changes to the contributory minimum
Changes to employment/pension combination
Changes in increased insurance period for child-rearing
Introduction of early retirement before age 60 for those with long careers
Reform of the survivor's pension and abolition of the widow's allowance
Purchasing contributions for earlier periods
Reform of minimum income support
A new child-care benefit
Reform of the law on the rights of persons with disabilities
Towards the introduction of long-term care insurance
Agreement between the social partners on supplementary schemes
New income scales for the seamen's scheme
Creation of an additional pension fund for civil servants
 

2003

Forthcoming reform of health insurance
Improvement of pension rights for long careers
Towards the unification of social protection systems for the self-employed
General reduction in employers' social security contributions
Adoption of legislation on retirement reform
Possible cumulation of employment and retirement benefits for doctors and nurses
Abolition of the time limits for buying contributions
Rationalisation of the minimum integration income
Increase in the financial contribution of beneficiaries of the allowance for the maintenance of personalised domestic autonomy
Measures to promote the provision of childcare places
Young children's childcare benefit
Application of paternity leave to those in vocational training
Simplification of the categories of unemployment benefit cover
Better compensation for victims of occupational accidents and disease
Flat-rate allowance for families
 

2002

Support for youth employment
Reform of the special childrearing allowance: six categories of supplements
Prevention of occupational risks in 2002
Introduction of paternity leave
Pension allowance created
The creation of an enterprise no longer prevents registration on the list of jobseekers
Measures announced for the regulation of family benefits
Application of a single scale for housing benefits
Reform of the private childcare allowance
Childraising allowance: making it easier to return to work
What are the changes brought about by the parental attendance allowance?
Harmonization of the contribution base and conditions of collection of the CRDS and CSG contributions
Modification of personal scope of CSG and CRDS contributions
Solidarity income created for those in overseas departments and in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
Bill on the financing of social security under discussion
Reorganization of the reserve funds for retirement
Extension of the survivor's benefit to widows and widowers without children
Limitation on work during retirement becomes permanent
Adjustment to minimum social benefits
New agreement signed between the National Family Allowances Fund (CNAF) and the State
 

2001

Increase in the minimum wage and impact on maritime-related benefits
New income assistance programme for older dependent persons
Greater administrative cooperation between AGIRC and ARRCO
Introduction of a new benefit: parental attendance allowance
 

1999

New time-limits for processing applications
Reform of the surviving spouse's allowance
Report on retirement pensions reform
Draft legislation for universal health coverage
Raise of old-age and disability pensions
 

1998

Entitlement to a single pension application extended
Foreigners no longer obliged to reside in France to draw pensions
Supplementary retirement institutes to be merged
Family support measures
Creation of a pre-retirement allowance
Stable rate of employment for workers with disabilities
Quality Charter
 

1997

New approach to private retirement savings funds
Strengthening social cohesion
Retirement savings funds
Unemployment allowance for older people
Draft legislation on social security funding for 1997
Old-age pension calculation for migrant workers
Verification of residency status
Case management under the general old-age insurance scheme
Alignment of overseas schemes
Back-to-school allowance
Contribution to the repayment of the social debt
Future of experimental dependency benefit
Single application for retirement benefits
Strengthened social rights for families adopting children
 

1996

Extensive restructuring of social security
 

1995

Creation of an experimental dependency benefit
Changes in financial management
Survivors' pensions revised

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