Good news for young active tenants, a flat-rate aid of 1000 euros was launched this Thursday, February 18.
Four conditions are required to benefit from it.
First, be under 25 (work-study and apprentices are not subject to this age limit) and have an employment contract, whatever it is (CDI, CDD, interim), signed less than 18 months.
Third condition, the young worker must receive between 0.3 and 1.1 minimum wage, "which amounts to earning between 369 euros net and 1353 euros net", specifies Corinne Bedos-Toulgoat, national director of development and supply at Action Housing Services.
Finally, you must have a lease contract in your name.
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"There is, however, no condition on the date of entry into the accommodation," says Corinne Bedos-Toulgoat.
A tenant for over a year is just as eligible as one who has just signed up.
And if the help is quite logically intended for young people who move into their very first home, this is not a sine qua non for the simple reason that it is unverifiable in fact.
It is therefore possible to have already been a tenant.
If you meet these four criteria, you can submit your application directly online on the Action Logement website (the former 1% Logement).
The process takes a few minutes.
“All you have to do is upload your identity document, a bank account statement (RIB), your employment contract or your last pay slip as well as your rental contract or your last rent receipt,” emphasizes the professional.
If the file is complete and the young person eligible for assistance, he then receives an agreement to sign online.
»Once the document is electronically signed, Action Logement triggers the payment by transfer, effective within more or less 72 hours, depending on bank deadlines.
A response to the fall of APL
This is the approach that Stella has just carried out successfully, in Sainte-Marie de La Réunion.
“I did not believe it at the beginning, I carried out the online simulation which declared me eligible, entrusts the young esthetician of 21 years, still astonished.
I'm in the process of moving in and it's really a good surprise, this new help comes at the right time in this difficult period.
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This boost is, in fact, not entirely new.
It is based on a system launched in September 2019: mobility assistance.
This has already made it possible to support more than 50,000 employees in the private sector forced to move close to their place of training or work.
"Its principle is extended to young workers, tenants of their main residence" under more flexible conditions, remarks Corinne Bedos-Toulgoat.
More than 30,000 young people are targeted, which represents a budget of 30 million euros for the government.
Above all, this launch is timely.
It comes as anger is mounting among young people with the entry into force in early January of the reform of personalized housing assistance (APL).
Long calculated on income declared two years earlier, the amount of APL is now based on income for the last twelve months (updated quarterly).
A new method of calculation that excludes many young people whose finances have already been damaged by the Covid-19 health crisis.
