Retirees face rising costs of mutual health insurance
Certificates – Mutual insurance contributions have increased by an average of 8.1% this year. For retirees, the increases are often double digits, weighing heavily on budgets already strained by inflation.
When they looked up their mutual insurance contribution amounts for the new year, some retirees couldn’t believe their eyes. Clarice, 62, a member of one of the major health supplements on the market, was left speechless. The contribution to your senior mutual insurance has increased from 69.7 euros per month last year to 105 euros on January 1, 2024, an increase of 50%. “It is enormous», exclaims this former childminder from Manche, whose retirement pension does not exceed 1000 euros. “Every month, mutual takes 10% of my pension», she enumerates, before clarifying that she is “notNot much to complain about” “I dare not imagine a person with this increase», she whispers, her throat is tight. Suffering from a serious pathology that forces her to choose the maximum guarantee, Clarice already fears for her future. “With age, mutual insurance increases more and we know that the rise in prices won’t stop there…»