De-medicalize France, RSA conditional on 15 hours of activity in 2025, elimination of the specific solidarity allowance, but also reform of state medical aid or invoicing for unhonored medical appointments… Here is what We must remember Gabriel Attal’s announcements on the subjects of salaries, social assistance and everyday money.
For work, so that it pays better and always more than inactivity everywhere and for everyone. Here is the first of four priorities put forward by Prime Minister Gabriel Attal during his general policy declaration to the National Assembly this Tuesday, January 30. To do this, he introduced several concrete measures, without however going into detail about their future implementation. What we know, this stage.
1 – Measures for low wages… but which ones?
Dismicardize France: what does this formula of the new Prime Minister hide? Gabriel Attal intends to look into the case of low wages, these middle class incomes just above the minimum wage level. We have a minimum wage, a minimum wage, significantly higher than that of our neighbors and we are proud of it, he declared. But we have a share of our workers close to the minimum wage, much larger than our neighbors. This is a problem.
He did not specify how he intends to act, apart from mentioning a project carried out from the next finance bill, therefore for measures by 2025. For the record, during the Yellow Vest crisis, the government Edouard Philippe had proposed a boost to low wages by boosting the activity bonus, help from the CAF to improve salaries close to the minimum wage, or at least hovering below the median salary.
Low salary: What is the minimum income to be entitled to the CAF activity bonus?
Do you earn more
or less than other employees? *
You win :
As of 01/12/2023, the minimum wage is 1,383.08 net monthly
In 2022, the median salary is 2,091 net monthly
(50% earns more, 50% earns less)
In 2022, 1% of employees earn more than 9,973 net monthly
* Source : INSEE – Salaries in the private sector 2022.
2 – 15 hours of activity to receive RSA in 2025
In 18 departments, we have launched an experiment which conditions the RSA on 15 hours of activity for integration. I am announcing to you that we are generalizing this system in all departments of France by January 1, 2025, declared Gabriel Attal.
The switch from ASS to RSA and the removal of this allocation
3 – Removal of the specific solidarity allowance for unemployed people at the end of their rights
The Prime Minister announced the abolition of the specific solidarity allowance (ASS) for unemployed people at the end of their rights. The ASS allows, without working, to validate quarters while we consider that retirement must be the fruit of work, regrets the head of government, highlighting his desire to combat inactivity traps.
So we will propose the switch to the solidarity allowance specific to the RSA and the elimination of this allowance, continued the Prime Minister. At the end of 2019, 351,000 people received the specific solidarity allowance, according to the statistical department of social ministers (Drees).
4 – Billing for unkept medical appointments
When you have an appointment with the doctor and you don’t come without warning, you pay: here is a concrete announcement slipped into his general policy speech. However, the implementation details remain to be clarified.
5 – Simplify access to MaPrimeRnov’
We are going to massively simplify the standards: review the DPE, simplify access to MaPrimeRnov’, facilitate densification, lift constraints on zoning, speed up procedures, declared the Prime Minister during his general policy speech. Without, however, going into detail about the simplification of MaPrimeRnov’.
DPE, MaPrimeRnov, zoning… Housing announcements from Prime Minister Gabriel Attal
And also…
Check Psy. I want to make the mental health of our youth a major cause of government action, declared Gabriel Attal. This is why we will increase the amount of the Psy Check and allow young people to have access to psychologists without a doctor’s prescription.
CAP aid. By March 15, 2024, all CAP aid will be paid into farmers’ bank accounts, the Prime Minister also declared to the National Assembly.
Home Insurance. We will evolve the natural disaster regime to modernize it and prevent certain insurers from abandoning the most risky territories, promised the head of government during his general policy speech to the National Assembly.
Taxes. The Prime Minister also affirmed that he wanted to keep the President of the Republic’s commitment to a new tax cut of 2 billion euros.