Morocco: Angry retirees

Retirees from education are denouncing the freezing of pensions and are ready to make their anger heard. Their national office is calling for a protest march in Rabat.

The act of protest will take place on October 1, 2024, the World Day of Older Persons. “This move comes in a context characterized by a terrible deterioration in the purchasing power of the Moroccan people due to the unprecedented rise in the prices of basic and consumer goods, the increase in poverty and unemployment rates and the overall degradation of all public services, and continues to marginalize and exclude retirees and pensioners, with a freeze on their pensions that does not meet the minimum requirements of a decent life for them and their families,” denounces the national office of the Union of Retirees of Education in Morocco (UREM), affiliated with the National Federation of Education (FNE) in a press release.