Rise in the minimum wage, general rebate on fuel replaced by an allowance for the most modest households, free condoms for those under 26… Overview of what will change on 1 January.
The minimum wage increases by 24 euros
The minimum growth wage (smic) is automatically increased by 1.8% due to the rise in prices.
It increases to 1,353 euros net monthly, an increase of 24 euros.
Gross, for a full-time 35-hour week, the monthly minimum wage now stands at 1,709 euros and the hourly minimum wage at 11.27 euros.
In the public service, the salaries of the 410,000 lowest paid agents will also be increased by 1.8% on January 1, 2023.
The red stamp bows out
La Poste will replace its red stamp for urgent letters delivered the next day with a dematerialized version.
The new formula, called “red e-Letter”, will allow documents of up to three sheets to be sent to the laposte.fr site or to a post office, via an automatic machine or with the help of a postman.
The document will be printed near the addressee, put in an envelope and distributed the next day if it was sent before 8 p.m.
The service will cost 1.49 euros, compared to 1.43 euros for the current red “priority letter” stamp.
The apprenticeship premium is changing
The premium for hiring apprentices will be 6,000 euros in 2023 for a minor as for an adult under 30 years old.
Currently, this aid is 5,000 euros for a minor, 8,000 for an adult.
Help at the pump ends
The general rebate on fuel is replaced by an allowance of 100 euros reserved for the 10 million most modest workers (annual tax income of reference per share less than 14,700 euros) using a car or a two-wheeler to go to work.
You must apply for it on the impots.gouv.fr website.
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100 euros for first-time carpoolers
A bonus of 100 euros is promised to motorists who will start carpooling in 2023, on long journeys as well as on those of daily life (from a certain number of journeys).
7,000 euros of ecological bonus
The amount of the ecological bonus for the purchase of an electric car is increased to 7,000 euros for half of the households, the most modest.
The Navigo climbs to 84 euros
The Navigo monthly subscription, necessary to travel on public transport in Île-de-France, increases by 12%, to 84.10 euros.
The single ticket increases to 2.10 euros.
Vigilance on electric meters
The reading of electricity meters becomes chargeable for customers who are not equipped with a Linky meter and who have not sent Enedis a self-reading during the last 12 months.
These customers will be charged a fee of 8.48 euros every two months levied by the energy suppliers.
A tariff shield on gas
The increase in regulated natural gas sales tariffs will be limited to 15%.
This tariff shield applies to residential subscribers (consuming less than 30 MWh/year) as well as co-ownerships with an individual natural gas supply contract.
Free condoms for young people
All young people under the age of 26 can now obtain free condoms at the counter of pharmacies.
Extended birth screening
Birth screening, which aims to screen all newborns for rare but serious diseases, has been extended to seven new pathologies, bringing the total count to thirteen.
The new diseases concerned are homocystinuria, leucinosis, tyrosinemia type 1, glutaric aciduria type 1, isovaleric aciduria, long-chain hydroxyacyl COA dehydrogenase deficiency and carnitine uptake deficiency.
The end of disposable containers in fast food restaurants
A plastic fries cone, a real glass instead of the traditional paper cup, a plastic container for nuggets… From Sunday, disposable packaging will be banned in fast food for on-site consumption, under the AGEC law against waste passed in February 2020.
New for alimony
In 2023, the payment of alimony will automatically go through the family allowance funds (CAF).
The reform, intended to prevent unpaid bills, has applied since March 1 to divorces pronounced by a judge.
It will be extended on January 1 to all other separations involving minor children
(divorce by mutual consent or enforceable title issued by the CAF)
: "No longer need to have a divorce judgment, even unmarried couples will be able to use it" , underlines the Cnaf.
Disability: extended assistance
People who are deaf, blind or have an intellectual, cognitive or psychological disability will be able to benefit from the Disability Compensation Benefit (PCH).
This funds a carer in order to obtain assistance in carrying out certain acts of daily living.
Doubling the rate of new PELs
For the first time in 22 years, the rate of remuneration of housing savings plans (PEL) signed from January 1 will increase to 2%, against 1% today.
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No gas boiler with MaPrimeRénov'
The MaPrimeRénov' system will no longer subsidize the purchase of gas boilers, including those with very high energy performance.
Thermal strainers prohibited for hire
In mainland France, dwellings consuming more than 450 kilowatt hours per square meter each year, according to their energy performance diagnosis (DPE), can no longer be rented or rented again.
They will henceforth be considered as indecent, like unsanitary accommodation or accommodation without a kitchen.
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It will also be a little easier to borrow from January 1.
The maximum rate at which the French can borrow over 20 years and more will indeed increase from 3.05% to 3.57%.
Buyers whose files were blocked could obtain their credit.
Chick grinding, it's over
In the laying hen sector, producers must put an end to the routine elimination of male chicks by generalizing the sexing of embryos in the egg.
A derogation has been put in place for the males of white hens (approximately 15% of national production) on the grounds that it is more difficult to determine their sex before hatching.
End of assize rape trials
Crimes punishable by up to 20 years' imprisonment, mainly rape, will now be judged in first instance by criminal courts, courts without popular jurors, and no longer by assize courts.
Automatic sentence reductions
This mechanism automatically offered detainees
(apart from terrorism)
sentence reductions, except for bad behavior.
From now on, it is a sentence enforcement judge who will be able to grant reductions only to detainees who have given “sufficient proof of good behavior” or who demonstrate “serious efforts at reintegration”.