This was a campaign promise from Emmanuel Macron in 2022. The number of departments where obtaining active solidarity income (RSA) will be conditional on 15 hours of activity will increase by the end of February from ten eight to forty-seven, before the generalization of this obligation planned for 2025, announced the Minister of Labor, Catherine Vautrin, Wednesday February 7.
“There are positions in our country that are not filled today”insisted on Public Senate Mme Vautrin, according to which bringing unemployed people at the end of their rights into employment “is quite important”. “What a job seeker is looking for is to return to employment. Our objective is to support them towards employment, it is the best possible emancipation”repeated the minister.
The Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, announced during his general policy speech that the unemployed at the end of their rights will no longer have a specific solidarity allowance (ASS) and will be switched to the RSA, under which they will no longer be able to validate quarters for their retirement.
The monthly amount of RSA, which is paid by family allowance funds, is 607.75 euros for a single person and 911.63 euros for a couple without children.
The departments, which finance the RSA, have denounced the “lack of consultation”and fear a load transfer of the order of “2.1 billion euros” to which they cannot ” to face “.