Good news as the end of year holidays approach. While inflation in France weakens the most precarious households, the deputies of the Socialist Party (PS) obtained an agreement from the government concerning new “exceptional” aid, ranging from 115 to 220 euros, paid in December 2023, automatically and without any formalities. This increase in the traditional Christmas bonus would concern the lowest-income single-parent families, or 500,000 homes, for a total cost of 70 million euros. As revealed The Parisian Tuesday November 7, 2023, the amendment should be put to a vote the next day in the National Assembly. A measure which seems to confirm the recent commitments made by Boris Vallaud, the president of the PS deputies. “We want to put the subject of single-parent families at the heart of the political agenda, particularly single mothers, they are far too often the face of difficulties and poverty in France”he had declared a few weeks earlier in the Assembly.
An amicable agreement
Concretely, this exceptional Christmas aid comes in the form of an amendment integrated into the end of management bill. This budgetary regulation text, submitted to a vote, aims “to open necessary appropriations not provided for in the finance bill and to cancel unused appropriations”detailed The Parisian. However, the government, which does not have a majority, has started negotiations in recent days with the various parliamentary groups in order to pass this text without having to resort to article 49.3. It is in this context that the president of the socialist parliamentary group, Boris Vallaud, succeeded in negotiating the creation of this exceptional bonus. “If for one reason or another the amendment is not adopted, we will obviously vote against the text”however, wanted to clarify the socialist wing. Another victory for this group, which had already managed to pass another exceptional aid at the end of 2022 for low-income households. In the midst of the energy crisis, homes heating with wood were then able to benefit from aid of 230 million euros.