Emmanuel Macron announced Monday, July 12 a “Engagement income” for unemployed or untrained young people, particularly affected by the health crisis, following a “Logic of duties and rights”.
“To amplify this dynamic [de l’apprentissage], I will present at the start of the school year the commitment income for young people, which will concern young people without employment or training and will be based on a logic of duties and rights ”, declared the President of the Republic in a televised address.
To help unemployed young people, whose precariousness worsened with the Covid-19 crisis, the government opened the construction site at the start of the year. “Universal youth guarantee”.
This “Engagement income” is part of the continuity of this project and should make it possible to generalize the remuneration of the pathways towards employment of young people aged 16 to 25 years most in difficulty, a solution preferred by the executive to the extension of the RSA to the least 25 years old.
“A new French pact between the generations”
Created under the Holland five-year term, the youth guarantee is an integration device which currently provides young people aged 16 to 25 who are not “Neither in employment, neither in studies nor in training” (called “NEET”) a monthly allowance (of a maximum amount of 497 euros). In return, the beneficiaries undertake to follow an intensive and collective integration program in local missions.
End of November 2020, in the plan “A young person, a solution”, the government had already announced the doubling of its number of beneficiaries in 2021, to 200,000, by relaxing the eligibility criteria.
“Support for our youth, better care for the elderly, it is a new French pact between the generations that we must build for our nation”, continued Mr. Macron.
“As for our seniors and our fellow citizens who are too often confronted with unresolved loneliness, we owe them a great humanist ambition for autonomy, reinforced support for home support, modernized retirement homes”, added the Head of State, outlining a reform of the management of the loss of autonomy.
Promised in mid-2018 and postponed several times, the bill which aims to reform assistance to the elderly, in institutions and at home, is eagerly awaited by professionals hard hit by the Covid-19 crisis.