In his general policy speech, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced that the conditioning of the RSA to 15 hours of weekly activity would be generalized by 2025. This system is already being tested in 18 departments.
In order to “unlock access to work”, the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, made an announcement concerning the RSA this Tuesday, during his general policy speech. The new head of government indicated that access to this system would, from 2025, be conditional on 15 hours of activity per week. This new system is already being tested in 18 French departments and is therefore intended to become widespread.
Furthermore, Gabriel Attal announced that unemployed people at the end of their rights would no longer benefit from specific allowance (ASS) and will be switched to RSA. At the end of 2019, 351,000 people received the specific solidarity allowance (ASS), according to the statistical department of social ministries (Drees).
“Full employment objective”
More generally, “we must go further in the reform of unemployment insurance”, indicated Gabriel Attal, recalling that a negotiation was launched between social partners “in favor of the employment of seniors, the prevention of the professional wear and tear of career paths and retraining.
Gabriel Attal reiterated the government’s “full employment objective”. “We must increasingly encourage people to return to work, and I will be extremely attentive to the evolution of the financial trajectory of unemployment insurance,” he warned. If the financial trajectory “deviates”, the head of government will not hesitate “as the law allows, to ask the social partners to put the work back on track, on the basis of a new framework letter”.