There will be no active solidarity income (RSA) for those under 25.
The repeated requests of associations and unions, in particular the CFDT, will not have changed anything: the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, confirmed this on Saturday during a trip to an Emmaus Solidarity accommodation center , in Epinay-sur-Orge (Essonne).
A visit during which the head of government unveiled new measures for the most precarious, with an envelope of over 700 million euros.
For young people in difficulty, the government will therefore prefer a one-off aid of 150 euros rather than a lasting allowance.
It will be granted from the beginning of December to 750,000 scholarship students, as well as to 560,000 young people who receive housing assistance (APL).
The announced anti-poverty weapon further mobilizes employment and integration, via “integration through economic activity (IAE)”, which should allow people furthest from employment to benefit from support strengthened to facilitate their professional integration.
Among the main measures announced is the creation, for 150 million euros, of "30,000 additional positions in the structures of the IAE by 2022 in order to reach 240,000 places by 2022".
1,500 places for young homeless mothers
The government also plans to release 120 million euros for skills employment paths in priority areas of the city - which concern jobs in local communities and associations.
They will thus see their funding by the state go from "45 to 80%".
A return to assisted jobs, in a way, which had been deleted in the summer of 2017 after the accession of Emmanuel Macron to the Elysee.
The other component focuses more on access to housing and emergency accommodation.
Regarding this point in particular, "1,500 places of accommodation and social support will be funded for homeless women leaving maternity", jointly announced this Saturday the Minister of Housing, Emmanuelle Wargon, and the Prime Minister, Jean Castex .
The aim is to prevent them from sleeping in hospital premises or on the street.
The expected measure was welcomed by Emmaüs Solidarité and the Abbé Pierre Foundation.
We returned to a state of health emergency.
But the urgency is also social.
The State will be at the rendezvous of national solidarity.
→ Over the year 2020, a family at RSA with 3 children will have benefited from an aid that will have been paid directly to them of € 1,200.
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- Jean Castex (@JeanCASTEX) October 24, 2020
In addition, the winter plan, which usually begins on November 1, has been brought forward to October 18.
Not to be confused with the winter truce which freezes the execution of evictions between November 1 and March 31, the winter plan triggers the opening of places for people without a roof.
An emergency in Paris, where 3,000 people calling 115 are without a solution every evening and while "more than 150 people are sleeping in the Bois de Vincennes", recalls the president of Emmaus Solidarity, Bruno Morel.
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Still on housing, Jean Castex also announced a "relaxation of the criteria for granting assistance for unpaid rents and the payment of housing expenses put in place in June by Action Logement
(Editor's note: the former 1 % housing)
”.
"The aid of 150 euros per month will be available no longer two months but six months for job seekers whose share of housing in the budget represents more than a third and no longer 40% as previously fixed", specified the Prime Minister.
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Without repeating the figure put forward by charities who claim that a million people have fallen into poverty since the start of the pandemic, the government assures that it is, with this plan, to respond to an increase brutal precariousness linked to the health crisis.
An emergency, while the number of RSA beneficiaries as well as various food aid has jumped.
“Despite efforts, these temporary measures are not enough, reacted Bruno Morel, president of Emmaus Solidarity.
In Paris alone, 500 people out of the 4000 followed by Emmaüs Solidarité have no solution.
"A criticism shared by Christophe Robert, general delegate of the Abbé Pierre Foundation, who believes that the plan presented this Saturday" is not ambitious enough ".