Budget 2027: What Public Servants' Pensions Mean in Departmental Appropriations
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These data, published on Tuesday in an annex to draft budget 2027, were already known, but the government refers to an "unedited" way of aggregating the figures.
In an exercise of "unpublished transparency", the government published this Tuesday the weight of pensions in some ministries. It thus reveals that almost a third of the national education budget is used to pay retirement pensions. - Budget 2027: what public servants' pensions weigh in the appropriations of ministries (Economy).
The government announced on Tuesday the expenditure of each ministry devoted to pensions. Forced to balance the public service system, the state allocates 32% of the national education budget to the payment of pensions.
The government's finance bill reveals that 32 per cent of the National Education credits will go to retirements, and 30 per cent to the Ministry of the Interior Nearly one third of the credits will go to retirements.
These high rates are mainly due to the demographic imbalance in the public service, with less than one contributor per retiree compared to 1.5 for private employees.
Pension spending consumes nearly a third of the budgets of some French ministries, leaving fewer and fewer resources available for other public services, according to a government report that breaks down pension burdens by ministry for the first time.
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