(AOF) – The AD-PA which brings together players in the nursing home market comments on the adoption by the Senate (by amendment no. 125) of the creation of a solidarity contribution through work, supposed to bring in 2, 5 billion euros each year for the autonomy sector: the organization recalls that “according to several official reports, it would be appropriate to release almost 10 for the old age sector alone”. According to the AD-PA, there are “a number of possibilities to create the new financing essential to the sector of assistance to the elderly”.
The organization is considering national solidarity via taxes or transfers of public funds, recourse to private insurance, a mixed solution between these first two proposals, and an exit from administered pricing.
She asks to “refuse that the State diverts each year several hundred million euros voted in Parliament and resulting from the solidarity day”: since the creation of the CNSA (from the solidarity day) it is more than 20 billion euros which were diverted to the detriment of the elderly to fund the State budget or Health Insurance. The organization calls for “safeguards to require governments and state services to allocate these new resources only to the missions for which they were initially voted for by Parliament.”
A seven-hour increase in annual working hours
The amendment strengthens the financing of the autonomy branch by means of an increase of seven hours in the annual working time, for full time, of people in employment, in the private sector as in public functions. In exchange for the benefit of these unpaid working hours, employers will pay “a solidarity contribution for autonomy, the rate of which will be increased from 0.3% to 0.6%”.
According to the explanatory memorandum, this “first stone” should “serve as a foundation for a more global reform of support for autonomy”, whether it concerns home assistance or establishments.
