The portal allowing new beneficiaries of the energy check to receive it for the year 2024 will close its doors on December 31.
According to the Ministry of Ecological and Inclusive Transition, requests have been increasing in recent days.
An extension of the deadlines for obtaining is being considered but has not yet been implemented.
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By midnight on January 1st, it will be too late. New beneficiaries of the energy check only have a few hours left to request it online for 2024, before the dedicated portal closes on December 31.
As a reminder, the value of this aid, which is used to pay for electricity, gas, firewood or fuel oil, varies between 48 and 277 euros depending on income and the size of the household. But since the abolition of the housing tax in 2023, the list of beneficiaries is no longer automatically updated. If a million French people now have to take the process themselves, many are unaware of it. “There really needs to be more transparency, more information. But all of this has not at all been made sufficiently clear to the general public,” comments in the report at the top of this article, Anna Creti, professor at Paris-Dauphine University and director of the Climate Economics Chair.
Towards an extension of delivery times?
According to the Ministry of Ecological and Inclusive Transition, requests have been pouring in for several days as the deadline approaches.
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Alexander, currently unemployed, is one of those who made their request at the last minute. He has just received confirmation that he will indeed benefit from the 2024 energy check. “Anything that reduces bills, particularly energy bills, is welcome”reacts the one who checked the chequeenergie.gouv site if he was a beneficiary.
Like him, 5.6 million French people are eligible for the energy check, but this year, 900,000 of them have still not requested it. An extension of the deadlines for obtaining the energy check is currently being considered, but has not yet been implemented.
