In a report published Wednesday, December 10, the Court of Auditors asks the Supplementary Pension Fund for pilots and flight attendants, among others, to reform. She indicates that this regime would be “too expensive” but above all “too favorable” for affiliates.
“Too expensive” and “too favorable” to affiliates. This is how the Court of Auditors judges the Supplementary Pension Fund scheme for pilots, flight attendants and stewards (CRPN). In this sense, it asks the organization to reform itself by “adapting the parameters of the regime”. The objective: to face the fragility of its financial balance.
Indeed, pilots, flight attendants and stewards can retire from the age of 55, while benefiting from a supplementary pension and “an increase” in order to compensate for the absence of a pension from the general scheme until the legal age is reached, i.e. “63.4 years for all insured persons under the general scheme”. This leads to a structural technical deficit, “masked in the short term by the return on €5.1 billion in reserves” which can allow the Supplementary Pension Fund to balance its accounts.
An airline pilot can end his career “at 62 years” on average and cabin crew “at 58.5 years”. In addition, “the amount of benefits is much higher than that of the pensions of other employees by Agirc-Arrco”, due “mainly” to salary differences during the career, explains the Court of Auditors.
A regime that corresponds to “the arduousness of the profession”
Another recommendation, the Court of Auditors wants “the composition of the board of directors” to be modified for the benefit of hostesses and stewards. “The ethical rules are not rigorously applied by the directors, in particular those relating to the confidentiality of deliberations and conflicts of interest”, writes the Court, which notes in particular “the reimbursement, without real control, of travel expenses to the chairman of the board of directors for a significant amount without the CRPN being able to attest to his physical presence at the meetings”.
For her part, the general director of the CRPN, Sandrine Johnson, indicated that this retirement plan for seafarers reflected “the arduousness of the profession and the strict medical skills” which are required.
published on December 12 at 10:00 a.m., Sébastien Salpietro, 6Medias
