The measure presented by Jean Castex in October will benefit from the end of December to 38 million French people receiving less than 2,000 euros net monthly.
Le Monde with AFP
By a last vote of the National Assembly, the Parliament definitively approved, Wednesday, 24 November, “the inflation indemnity” of 100 euros provided for by the Government for 38 million French,
The measurement is contained in the second draft amending finance law for 2021, called “end of management”, adopted by 39 votes against 12 after a Ultimate Baroud of honor of the deputies France unsightly (LFI) who see In the inflation indemnity a “skinny lean”. The Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher has poured against “a simple, fast, effective measure” in the face of rising prices, including energy.
The allowance, which had been announced at the end of October, must be paid to employees, independent, retirees, unemployed, beneficiaries of the minimum social minima and still students receiving less than 2,000 euros net monthly. This premium, taxoned, will be paid at once and automatically, by the end of December by the employers (which will be reimbursed by the State) to the employees, and the beginning 2022 for the other categories, without the need for any approach.
The left pointed an “ephemeral and poorly targeted” measurement, “a drop of water in a barrel of oil”. Emmanuel Macron seeks “to depart from the label of president of the rich” and “comes out the timber checkbook” as the presidential level, said Mathilde Panot, LFF member leaders, who defended in vain a moving motion.
cases of “injustice”
“The emergency” of the measurement is that of the “campaign time”, also pinned Marie-Christine Dalloz for the Republicans group. She believes that the executive seeks to “avoid a recovery of the protest” in the vein of yellow vests, even to increase the level of the country’s debt.
Right and left have criticized an “injustice”: taking into account the only individual income for the payment of the premium, and not household income. Because a single mother receiving 2,050 euros monthly will not touch the indemnity, unlike an employee at 1,900 euros, in a relationship with a person with much higher remuneration for example.
The Senate, dominated by the right, had rejected this amending budget earlier in new reading. The High Assembly had voted the “prior question” proposed by the Rapporteur General of Budget Jean-François Husson (LR), resulting in the rejection of the text without examination of the articles.
Rather than “inflation indemnity”, the senators had promoted a device presented as “better targeted”, which provided for an exceptional increase of 150 euros of the activity bonus and an exceptional allowance of 150 euros for the beneficiaries social minima and social benefits.