"Risk of Default of Payment" in 2027, "Trajectory Out of Control": 80 Years After Its Creation (and Despite Dozens of Reforms), Social Security Is on the Brink of the Abyss
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80 years after its creation, the ECU with a deficit of more than EUR 20 billion shows a worrying financial situation due to the sickness and pension branches. The Court of Auditors has already alerted to a "out-of-control trajectory".
With its 666 billion euros of expenditure, Social Security, created on October 4, 1945, is the jewel of solidarity with French. Yet, at the dawn of its 80th spring, it has a deficit. Should we reconnect with the partitarianism of the beginnings to save it?
With a debt of 137.9 billion euros at the end of 2024, and a recurring annual deficit, it is becoming urgent to reflect on the future of the financing of social security.


By the ordinances of 4 and 19 October 1945, France established a single social protection institution for salaried workers, separate from the State, which is financed by labour.
Created in 1945, our model of social protection, a pillar of French society, is weakened by its deficit. Is it breathless? Economists' opinions diverge.
Created in 1945, Social Security celebrates its 80th anniversary this Saturday, October 4. It is an essential component of the French social system, but it represents a very important cost, particularly financed by multiple contributions and taxes. In France, Social Security is a set of mainly public schemes and institutions which have the function of ensuring the social protection of individuals from events or from various situations (illness, …
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