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No, the RSA does not exceed the minimum wage ... even with the exceptional Covid-19 bonus

2020-10-20T15:10:13.618Z


According to the Ministry of Health and the ATD Quart Monde association, "the difference is on average 700 euros between an RSA and a minimum wage", contradicting a visual widely shared on Facebook.


The RSA now exceeds the minimum wage, as a viral visual on Facebook affirms.

False, answer the Ministry of Health and the ATD Quart Monde association which estimates that

"the difference is on average 700 euros between an RSA and a minimum wage"

once social benefits have been taken into account.

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"It's official the RSA now exceeds the minimum wage, what good is working!"

Made of kids and stay warm, it's more profitable ”

, we can read on the visual, shared thousands of times since the announcement of the payment of“ exceptional aid ”of 150 euros - and 100 additional euros per child, up to a limit of 450 euros in total - to beneficiaries of the active solidarity income (RSA), at a time when the Covid-19 crisis is pushing many households into poverty.

In reality, the RSA does not

"exceed"

the minimum wage even by adding, over a given month, this bonus announced last week by President Emmanuel Macron.

At the end of 2020, a single person without children and who does not receive housing assistance can receive 564.78 euros per month under the RSA.

The minimum wage amounts to 1,219 euros net.

By way of comparison, a single person with three children paid the minimum wage can receive 2,599 euros, thanks in particular to housing allowances and family allowances, according to the Statistics Directorate of the Ministry of Solidarity and Health (Drees).

With the same number of children, a single person with the RSA can receive up to 1,837 euros per month.

Or a differential of 762 euros on disposable income.

"In any case, we can not earn more"

"Whatever his family situation, a person not receiving income from activity has a lower standard of living than a person working on minimum wage,"

writes the Drees.

“In no case can we win more.

The difference is on average 700 euros between an RSA and a minimum wage, and 300 euros between an RSA and half a

minimum

wage ”

, explains Jean-Christophe Sarrot, head of the employment network of the ATD association to AFP. Fourth World.

“A single person with three children who receives the minimum wage is entitled to a lot of social assistance, that's what we sometimes forget.

It has the activity bonus, housing assistance, possible mutual aid, tax reductions ... All of this is added to the minimum wage, ”he

underlines.

"With the person at the RSA, the classic mistake we make is that at the RSA we add family allowances while they are included in [the amount of the RSA is deducted as much]"

, adds Jean -Christophe Sarrot.

The latter notes that

"childcare costs"

and transport costs can however reduce the difference in disposable income between an employee on the minimum wage and a beneficiary of the RSA.

“The debate often revolves around the fact that the surplus income when one is on minimum wage compensates or not the additional expenses incurred by the fact of working (childcare, transport, etc.) or the loss of certain local aids or related rights (free transport, price in the canteen, etc.).

There, it depends on the situation of the people ”,

abounds the Drees.

9.3 million poor in 2018

According to the latest official figures, in 2018 France had 9.3 million poor people, and they could be an additional million because of the health crisis due to Covid-19, associations forecast, even if this estimate is not confirmed .

Read also: The Covid-19 explodes the number of poor

However, a few clues emerge: according to a study published Wednesday by the Institute of Statistics (Insee), confinement has led to the impoverishment of a quarter of households, but the effect has been even more harmful for families who were already among the poorest.

Source: lefigaro

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