Retirement reform pause strips parental bonus from many mothers
The suspension of the 2023 pension reform lowers the retirement age for some cohorts, causing mothers to lose the newly created parental bonus they expected.
The 2023 pension reform introduced a parental surcote to compensate women whose child-care quarters would otherwise become ineffective due to a higher retirement age. The bonus adds a percentage increase for each quarter worked in the year before the legal retirement age, provided the retiree has met the full-quarter requirement, has at least one child-related quarter, and is aged 63 or older. The suspension of the reform lowered the retirement age to 62 years and nine months for those born between January 1964 and March 1965, stripping that cohort of the parental bonus.
Consequently, mothers born in that window will no longer receive the extra increase, which is now reserved for those born from April 1965 onward. The change affects retirement calculations shown on the Info Retraite website and the Mon compte retraite app.
