DECRYPTION – While 70% of French people receive the “inflation allowance” of 100 euros, the feeling of downgrading is spreading in the country, fueling a collective psychosis of impoverishment.
France today has 38 million poor people, “lacking the necessary” according to the classic dictionary definition. In any case, this is the idea that Prime Minister Jean Castex has of it, presenting last October the “inflation allowance” of 100 euros, currently being distributed to its beneficiaries. The intention is certainly generous, which aims to compensate them for soaring fuel prices. Anyone over the age of 16 (provided, for minors, of working) and earning less than 2000 euros net per month is eligible, ie 38 million and 70% of the population of the age groups concerned. In total a bill of 3.8 billion euros for the State.
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