The month of August is notably marked by the extension or the entry into force of certain support measures to purchase power.
Le Monde with AFP
The minimum wage revalued in the face of inflation, the rates of booklet A and the popular savings book (LEP) up, but also the end of the state of health emergency: retail review of the main measures which come into force in France at 1 er
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- The minimum wage increases by 2 %
The strong inflation will trigger a new automatic increase in the minimum interprofessional growth wage (minimum wage) at 1 er August 2.01 %. Very precisely, the minimum wage for full time will drop from 1,302.64 euros to 1,329.06 euros net. The hourly rate will increase from 8.58 euros to 8.76 euros. This is the fourth increase in the minimum wage in less than a year, after that of 2.65 % in May.
Beyond the annual revaluation of January, the minimum wage is increased mechanically during the year of the amount of inflation (calculated for 20 % of households with the lowest income) if this exceeds 2 % compared to the last increase.
- The rate of the Double booklet
The rate of booklet A, the savings product held by the most French, is doubled, to go from 1 to 2 %. This is the second increase this year, after a first doubling of the rate at 1 er February, by 0.5 %, a historic floor, at 1 %.
This increase, proposed by the governor of the Banque de France on July 14 and accepted in the process by the government, is also justified by the increase in prices observed in recent months, which reached 6.1 % Over a year in July.
As for the rate of the popular savings book, reserved for people with modest income (maximum 20,296 euros annually for a single person), it drops from 2.2 % to 4.6 %. He had not reached a comparable rate since 1998 (4.5 %).
- The revalued start -up allowance
The back -to -school allowance (ARS) is paid at the end of August, subject to means of means, to families with at least one school child aged 6 to 18. It is one of the services which must increase by 4 % within the framework of the “purchasing power” bill to deal with inflation.
For the start of the 2022 school year, its amount is 376.98 euros per child aged 6 to 10, 397.78 euros per child aged 11 to 14 and 411.56 euros per child aged 15 to 18 .
- End of the state of health emergency
After more than two years of pandemic, the state of health emergency, an exceptional legal framework decreed in the face of the crisis, will end at the beginning of August. There will be little concrete consequences, since the main restrictions have already been lifted. Only two measures remain on the agenda: the maintenance of follow-up, which allows you to know the number of cases or hospitalizations, as well as the possibility of imposing a SARS-COV-2 detection test whose result is Negative for travelers at the start or arrival of France or the overseas departments and territories.
Furthermore, the scientific council, created at the start of the pandemic, disappears. It will be replaced by a monitoring and anticipation committee of health risks, created by a decree published in the Official Journal Sunday, July 31. The names of its members will be “communicated in the coming days,” said the office of the Minister of Health, François Braun.
This committee, responsible for a watch on “the health risks linked to infectious agents reaching humans and animals, environmental and food pollutants, and climate change”, will have to make recommendations when a projection reveals a health risk “.
- Prolonged fuel
The “fuel discount” of 15 cents per liter of petrol or diesel, excluding taxes, applied from the 1 er April, was extended until August 31.
For the time being, it is expected that this premium is further increased in September, before gradually turning off by the end of 2022.