While households are facing many expenses at the end of 2021, assistance is offered, such as the Christmas bonus or the inflation allowance. Can you benefit from these aids? Answers.
The end of the year is marked by multiple expenses for households. Indeed, the Christmas period forces you to buy gifts for the whole family and often expensive ingredients for festive meals. This is also the time when the housing tax falls: in 2021, it will have to be paid online before November 15 and until November 20 for main residences. For certain second homes, you have until December 15, 2021. Another significant expense: the television license, to be paid at the same time as the housing tax. Its amount varies according to your accommodation and its location, and it is more expensive in metropolitan France than in the DROM-COM. To help you meet these expenses, aid is set up by the State. Are you entitled to it? Answers.
1 / Inflation aid
This aid was created to help the most modest households to cope with the rise in prices, in particular that of fuel. But not only: it is also about helping them so that they can have a purchasing power similar to that before inflation. For this, Prime Minister Jean Castex indicated on the TF1 set on October 21, 2021: “Faced with rising prices, the Government has chosen the fairest and most efficient system. 38 million French people who earn less than € 2,000 net per month (before income tax, Editor’s note) will receive an allowance inflation ‘of 100 € per person. No action will be necessary. “
the government indicated the main categories of people who will be able to benefit from the inflation allowance. These are employees, public officials, self-employed workers, job seekers, people with disabilities and recipients of social benefits, retirees .es, including beneficiaries of early retirement, scholarship students and those without activity receiving housing assistance, young people with a professional activity, apprentices as well as young people in a support path towards employment, beneficiaries of social minima (RSA, ASS, AAH, RSO, PreParE, ASI), including disabled workers in establishments and work support services (ESAT).
2 / The energy check
As temperatures drop, energy expenditure increases and can sometimes cost you dearly. Some households are therefore entitled to state aid in the form of an energy check, which was issued at the end of March 2021. It can help you pay bills for electricity, gas, firewood. or even energy renovation work. To find out if you are eligible for the energy check, do the simulation.
3 / The Christmas bonus
The renewal of the Christmas bonus has not yet been officially announced. However, it is likely that if it is possible again for the year 2021-2022, the conditions for obtaining it will be the same as for 2020. It should then be collected on December 15 and 16, 2021 for certain beneficiaries of social minima, indicates the government. No step is necessary to touch it.
4 / The Macron bonus
“The exceptional purchasing power premium, known as the Macron premium, has been applied every year since. For 2021, it is renewed (…) for 2021”, indicated the government. This bonus of up to 1000 euros can be paid by any employer who wishes. It benefits from an exemption from income tax and any social security contribution or contribution.
This bonus is reserved for employees whose remuneration is less than 3 minimum wage (over the 12 months preceding its payment), it must be paid between June 1, 2021 and March 31, 2022 and it does not replace any element of remuneration. . In 2021, it can be 2000 under certain conditions: for companies that have signed a profit-sharing agreement, for companies with less than 50 employees (new in 2021), for second-line workers, if revaluation are initiated (new in 2021).
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