The Senate has just passed the purchasing power bill. Thus, many aids will increase by 4%. Here are the details of the increased aid and the date on which you can receive it.
This Wednesday, August 3, the senators voted for the first part of the purchasing power bill with 235 votes in favor and 27 against. A few days earlier, the National Assembly had adopted the text by 395 votes against 112. A boost that many French people will be able to benefit from and whose total cost is estimated at 20 billion euros, according to the government. This exceptional revaluation has been set at 4% and will concern many social benefits such as the activity bonus, the RSA or even family allowances. In detail, other aid will be revised upwards to cope with growing inflation.
Here are the social benefits affected by this increase:
- Basic retirement pensions, under direct law or derived law, and invalidity pensions (including reform pensions for special schemes), minimum old age (ASPA and former allowances), minimum contributory, minimum survivor’s pension, pension increase pension for dependent spouse, increased reference pension for farmers and its capping threshold, details Capital
- Widow’s allowance
- Supplementary Disability Allowance (ASI)
- Allowance for disabled adults (AAH)
- Active solidarity income (RSA), overseas solidarity income (RSO)
- Prime Macron
- Housing assistance
- Temporary Waiting Allowance (ATA)
- Support for the family and social life of former migrants in their country of origin
- Specific solidarity allowance
- Retirement equivalent allowance
- Family benefits: family allowances, family supplement and increased family supplement, family support allowance
- Childcare benefit: birth grant, adoption grant, basic allowance, free choice of childcare supplement, shared child education allowance, education allowance for disabled children
- Back-to-school allowance
- Lump-sum allowance paid in the event of the death of a child
- Unit rates for the specific school catering service (DOM and Mayotte)
- Solidarity leave allowance
- Lump-sum increase for dependent child
- The contributions and wages giving rise to a payment of contributions until June 30, 2022 serving as the basis for the calculation of old-age pensions which come into effect after this same date
- Death benefit
- Allowance for early termination of activity for asbestos workers (ACAATA)
- Complementary solidarity health and state medical aid
- Allowance paid to young people in EPIDE
- Allowance paid under the youth employment contract, as well as the one-off allowance paid pursuant to Article L. 5131-5 of the Labor Code
- Youth guarantee
- Remuneration of vocational training trainees
- Use of restaurant tickets for the purchase of food products “whether or not they are directly consumable”, i.e. pasta, starchy foods, groceries or even unprocessed meat and fish, until 31 July 2023.
Social benefits up 4%, when can you get them?
For the time being, if the purchasing power law has been passed, it will take a few days for it to be promulgated. Since then, revaluations will be applied retroactively for the month of July. However, for the pension system, the increase will not be for now, explains Capital. The hike is expected to take place on September 9.