Up to 100 organizations around France joined together to demand a pension equivalent to the minimum wage, €1,280 (US$2,010). The disabled currently receive less than half that, €628 (US$986).
Protesters came to Paris by train, bus or specially equipped vehicles to march on the city's Right Bank. A delegation later delivered a petition supported by tens of thousands to President Nicolas Sarkozy.
The French "imagine that everything is done in this country for the handicapped, (but) it's not true," said Jean-Marie Barbier, head of the Association of the Paralyzed of France.
A second protest march Saturday of retirees angry over an additional year being added to social security payments, to make it 41 years to receive a full pension, drew less than 5,000 people.
The Associated Press
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