The government is proposing to broaden the criteria for benefiting from caregiver leave, and to compensate it at the minimum wage, so that more people can support an elderly, sick or disabled loved one.
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An amendment to this effect was tabled Thursday evening to the 2022 Social Security draft budget, at first reading before the National Assembly until the weekend.
The deputy Agir Paul Christophe, at the origin of several measures on the subject under the five-year term, tabled the same amendment.
Implemented last year, helping the near compensated leave, for employees or officials to terminate their activity is
"an important step but must continue to deploy"
, says the government in the explanatory memorandum to the amendment .
This should be widely approved on Friday by the deputies, requesting to strengthen the old age component of the Social Security budget project carried by the Minister for Autonomy Brigitte Bourguignon.
Revaluation
Less than 5,000 people have benefited so far. The leave is three months which can be divided, and renewable up to a total duration of one year over a career. This is to extend this leave "
for caregivers of people with disability or frailty can, without being particularly serious, require regular assistance"
such as people in GIR level 4 dependence - currently GIR 1 (heaviest handicap) to 3 are covered. The same broadening of criteria will be applied to the donation of leave to a college caring for a loved one who has lost autonomy.
In addition, the government is proposing to revalue the basic amount of the daily caregiver allowance to the minimum wage, ie to 58 euros net.
The amount is currently 43 euros per day for a caregiver as a couple, 52 euros for a single person.
The increase
"will relieve families who used the device sparingly or not at all," said
MP Paul Christophe to AFP.
The same revaluation will be applied to leave for a sick child.
In France, 8 to 11 million people take care of a loved one with a loss of autonomy, whether an elderly parent, a disabled person or suffering from a chronic or disabling disease.
