When you receive a survivor’s pension from the general scheme, it may be revised. The amount may be revised upwards or downwards, depending on the income you declare. What happens when you receive a survivor’s pension and are about to retire?

According to the site Pleinevie.fr, there is no request for review to be made to the National Old Age Insurance Fund (Cnav). Just ask for retirement. Then, the CNAV will take into account this new situation and the resulting changes in resources. The revision will be automatic. The survivor’s pension is revised from the first day of the month following the date of modification of the resources, underlines the site of the cfdt-retired.

Beware of the “crystallization” of survivors’ pensions. The last revision takes place three months after the starting point of all the applicant’s basic and supplementary retirement pensions. Afterwards, it will no longer be possible to revise the amount of the survivor’s pension. The supplementary pension paid by Agirc-Arrco is not subject to means testing. This means that it does not change from the moment it is assigned. Its amount does not vary, regardless of the survivor’s income.

Like the pensions of the general scheme, the survivor’s pensions were to be revalued from July 1 for payment in August. The rate of revaluation should reach 4%. But we still have to wait for the purchasing power bill to be enacted.

As a reminder, the survivor’s pension corresponds to part of the pension received by a deceased person. The sum is paid to the surviving spouse (and/or ex-spouse), and to the children under certain conditions. All pension plans are concerned but the amount of the pension varies from one fund to another. In the private sector, the amount of the pension is equivalent to 54% of the rights that the deceased spouse received or could have received. For civil servants, it is 50%.