The Prime Minister wanted from 2022 – then a presidential candidate – to create a single social assistance to replace current social assistance, conditional on the availability of the beneficiary in particular to “carry out activities useful to the community or in business”.
Michel Barnier wants to reopen the “single social allowance” file. Invited this Thursday evening on the set of France 2, the new Prime Minister declared that he wanted to “open a project” on this subject in order to ensure “that at the end of this work, it pays more to work than not to work “. During his intervention, the head of government nevertheless warned that this project “will take time” and “will not be immediate”.
“Work must pay more than the addition of allowances. We must also ‘debureaucratize’ this mass of allowances which are distributed” and “sometimes perhaps increase some of them”, such as those concerning “people in a situation of disability”, declared Michel Barnier.
Last presidential election
This unique social allowance recalls a proposal that Michel Barnier had already made during the last presidential election, at the time of the Les Républicains (LR) party primary where he came third with just under 24% of the vote. He then wanted to create a single social assistance to replace current social assistance, conditional on the availability of the beneficiary in particular to “carry out activities useful to the community or in business”.
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This project is also one of those presented this Wednesday by Laurent Wauquiez, president of the Republican Right deputies (ex-LR). With his troops, he advocates a “single social allowance capped” at “70% of the minimum wage”, intended according to him to fight against “welfare”.
Jérémy Bruno with AFP Journalist BFMTV
