Agricultural pensions: an upgrading from 1 November 2021

This measure applies to farm managers who have liquidated all of their mandatory pensions and are retiring in November 2021, as well as current retirees. Farmers working under other status, working spouses and family caregivers, are not affected.

In order to benefit from this upgrading, it is necessary to:

• be a manager of an agricultural holding or company which has exclusively or principally developed a holding;
• to justify a career complete of insurance under the scheme for self-employed persons in agriculture, i.e. 32.5 years for insured persons retired before 1^er January 1997;
• to be entitled to a full-rate pension on the effective date of their basic retirement pension for insured persons retired after 1^er January 1997;
• to assert all basic and supplementary rights with all affiliated pension schemes.

Farmers shall not be entitled to the differential supplement before the date of entry into use, which they fixed when they applied for winding-up, of all the retirement pensions of their own right to which they are entitled.

Where farmers do not fulfill the conditions for one or more of their pensions at the date on which they claim the differential supplement, they may prove this by any means. The differential supplement shall be calculated without taking account of such pensions up to the last day of the calendar month preceding that in which the conditions for entitlement are fulfilled.