Usually, the energy check is distributed automatically, without anyone having to claim it. Exceptionally, in 2024, following a hiccup linked to the abolition of the housing tax, those who will benefit from this average aid of 150 euros will have to report to a complaints counter. Patience. It is mid-May that we will have to act.
1 million beneficiaries potentially excluded from the energy check by the state! Six consumer associations (AFOC, CLCV, CNAFAL, CSF, Familles Rurales, UFC-Que Choisir, UNAF) co-signed a press release on Monday February 5 denouncing a real inequality of access to public assistance due to a lack of administration. At issue: the gradual disappearance of the housing tax, now definitively transformed into a housing tax on secondary residences only.
Energy check 2024: one million beneficiaries under threat
The associations did well to react, well done to point out the problem, we have resolved it, there will be no loser, reacted the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire the same day. The energy check is paid according to tax income and family situation within the home, determined according to the housing tax. As the housing tax is removed, it is more difficult to identify housing, explained Bruno Le Maire, who announced the establishment of a complaint counter for forgotten items.
Who will be left out of the 2024 energy check?
Bercy thus immediately recognized the hiccup denounced by consumer associations. Who is at risk of being forgotten? New homes, students or active youths for example, or households whose income has decreased in 2022 compared to 2021. THE new beneficiariesclear.
When and to contact the complaints desk?
Bruno Le Maire’s office then provided some additional details on the 2024 energy check: it will be sent automatically like every year between the beginning of April and mid-May, this year more than 5.6 million eligible households, whose reference tax income is therefore less than 11,000 euros per consumption unit. For the majority of beneficiaries, this will therefore be automatic.
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MoneyVox / BL / February 2024