During his general policy speech on Tuesday January 30, new Prime Minister Gabriel Attal made a series of announcements. Among them, the abolition of the specific solidarity allowance (ASS).
This is one of Gabriel Attal’s concrete announcements on Tuesday during his grand oral. During his general policy speech, the Prime Minister announced the abolition of the specific solidarity allowance (ASS) for the unemployed at the end of their rights.
At the end of 2019, 351,000 people received the specific solidarity allowance, according to the statistical department of social ministers (Drees). To benefit from it, you must have worked at least 5 years (full-time or part-time) during the 10 years before the end of the last employment contract. If you have stopped your activity to raise a child, the 5 years are reduced by one year per child within the limit of 3 years, specifies the service-public.fr site.
552.67 euros per month for a single person
Furthermore, this aid is paid under conditions: monthly resources must not exceed a ceiling of a net amount of 1271.90 euros for a single person or 1998.70 euros for a couple. The ASS can also be maintained in the event of resumption of activity, under conditions. The amount paid is 18.17 euros per day for a single person, or approximately 552.67 euros per month.
The ASS allows, without working, to validate quarters while we consider that retirement must be the fruit of workregretted 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.
It’s a low blow for the long-term unemployed
Concretely, the transition from ASS to RSA is not a bad financial transaction for the people concerned. Currently, the amount of RSA for a single person is 607.75 euros per month, which is a little more than 50 euros additional compared to ASS.
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Bad news on the other hand, the RSA does not give the right to retirement unlike the ASS which allows you to validate one quarter every 50 days of compensation, within the limit of four quarters per year. However, it is by validating quarters that we can hope to retire at full rate, without reduction.
This therefore penalizes you on your full rate age. This is a low blow for the long-term unemployed, analyzes Claude Wagner of the retired CFDT, questioned by Capital.
At what age can I retire? *
| Legal retirement age ** | — |
| Number of quarters required ** | — |
| automatic full rate age ** | 67 years old |
*As of 1er September 2023, the legal retirement age will be gradually raised by three months per year to reach 64 years in 2030, compared to 62 years today.
** Source: government pension reform project presented on January 10, 2023.
NB: This is a simplified simulator which presents general cases. For a personalized simulation, go to the simulator retirement info site.
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