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Based on income going back two years, personalized housing assistance will now be calculated "in real time".
The reform of APL (personalized housing assistance) will see the light of day, after many setbacks. The Minister of Housing, Emmanuelle Wargon, announced in The Parisian, this Monday, a real-time calculation of aid in relation to income, which will come into force on January 1, 2021.
"The reform will enter into force on January 1. Aid will be calculated on the basis of the last twelve months, that is to say from December 2019 to November 2020", explained the minister.
APLs are, at the present time, calculated on income going back two years. "The new method of calculation adjusts the aid according to income 'in real time'. If these increase, the aid decreases. If the income decreases, the allowances increase," added Emmanuelle Wargon. For example, "a single person who earned 1,000 euros per month in 2019, then 1,100 euros in 2020, will see his APL gradually drop over a year from 77 to 44 euros per month. Conversely, an employee who experiences a period of partial unemployment from April to August 2020 will see its APL increase by around 30 euros per month ".
The government is counting on this reform to save around one billion euros. The latter expects "a higher number of beneficiaries to see their APL increase", "which will sharply reduce the savings linked to the reform," said the minister.
For students, "we are going to switch to a package," said the Minister of Housing, which will be "advantageous for those who work part-time, for example". This reform is distinct from the drop of 5 euros per month in APL, decided at the start of Emmanuel Macron's five-year term, which is at the origin of a controversy relayed by the opposition and associations, notes the agency France- Hurry.