Financial assistance for remote assistance and meal delivery for certain elderly people has been eliminated. These two aids, granted until now to elderly people receiving the personalized autonomy allowance (APA) at home, made it possible to cover teleassistance and meal delivery up to 30 to 100% of the cost of these services. The department – run by the socialists – ceased this support on January 1st.
In a letter addressed to beneficiaries and of which AFP was aware, the department justifies this decision by “growth (in) expenditure at a sustained rate between social needs, inflation but also and above all numerous government decisions which are not financed ”, when revenues “collapse”.
The community also says it wishes to “preserve the essentials, namely the human aids which make it possible to support the essential actions of daily life” of the elderly and the respite of their caregivers. “The Departmental Council has been denouncing for several months, like many other communities of all political persuasions, the budgetary asphyxiation imposed on us by the State and its consequences on local public services,” underlines the community to the AFP.
Beneficiaries losing this aid were suggested to contact their Municipal Social Action Centers (CCAS), which sometimes “offer the inhabitants of their municipality teleassistance subscriptions at preferential prices” and a possible contribution to the delivery costs of meals. .
-“Mutual and complementary health insurance already include a remote assistance guarantee or offer it as an option,” also explains the signatory of the letter, Catherine Boursier, deputy vice-president for autonomy. “In addition, remote assistance and home meal delivery entitle you to a 50% tax credit,” she notes.
This removal of aid, which concerned some 2,900 people, “is in no way intended to finance another public policy”, the community told AFP.
The RN deputy for Meurthe-et-Moselle Frédéric Weber denounced, in a press release on Monday, the choice of the Departmental Council to launch on an experimental basis an “emancipation income for young people not working, in the amount of 500 euros per month for a year, for a minimum cost of 600,000 euros”, regretting a choice “that breaks with the real priorities (of the) territory”.
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