The "
inflation allowance
" of 100 euros, announced in October and intended for 38 million people, will begin to be paid on Monday, December 13, in this case to scholarship students, Budget Minister Olivier Dussopt announced on Sunday.
Payments will begin with scholarship students on Monday and Tuesday, and will last until the end of February, for retirees.
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Employees under private law should receive the bonus at the end of December, via their company: "
From the end of December for those who can,
" said Olivier Dussopt on franceinfo, the State committing to "
reimburse companies extremely quickly
" (loans on their social contributions).
For public sector employees, it will be "
at the latest
" in January, the ministry said.
The Urssaf will be responsible for paying the sum from December 20 to employees employed at home by individuals (some will still have to transmit their bank details, the Urssaf having approximately 400,000 RIB out of the million employees identified).
For the self-employed and micro-entrepreneurs it will be during December, February for the artist-authors.
The "
inflation allowance
" of 100 euros, announced by Prime Minister Jean Castex on October 21, concerns approximately 38 million people: employees, self-employed, farmers, invalids, retirees, the unemployed, recipients of minimum social benefits, scholarship students, receiving less than 2000 euros net monthly.
Tax-exempt, it will be paid in one go and automatically.
A cost for the state
This "
exceptional aid
" was voted by Parliament at the end of November in the second amending finance bill, and the implementing decree was published this Sunday in the Official Journal.
But this is not the only measure taken by the government to avoid a decline in the purchasing power of the French during the economic recovery.
The government announced that electricity prices, under pressure due to global demand, would be capped at 4% at the start of 2022 and until February 2023.
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A measure whose cost to the State has continued to be reassessed upwards.
First estimated at 4 billion euros, it was then valued at 5.9 billion euros.
Asked about this, the Minister of Public Accounts conceded that this cost could reach
“10 or 12 billion euros”
, if the price increase was established at 25% over the whole of 2022. A figure which had already been put forward by some experts in recent weeks, such as Julien Teddé, managing director of the broker Opéra Énergie, who estimated that the cost would be over 10 billion.