Christmas bonus 2024: what you need to know

Its amount remains unchanged compared to 2023.

The “Christmas bonus”, an end-of-year bonus whose minimum amount has been set in 2024 at 152.45 euros, for a single person, is paid from this Tuesday to beneficiaries of minimum social benefits.

More than two million beneficiaries

“All beneficiaries of the active solidarity income (RSA), the specific solidarity allowance (ASS), the flat-rate bonus for resumption of activity and the retirement equivalent allowance (AER) will benefit” from the 17 December, announced at the end of November the Ministries of Solidarity, Autonomy and Equality between Women and Men, that of Labor and Employment and their counterpart responsible for the Budget and Public Accounts.

This bonus, created in 1998 and continued since then, is awarded to more than 2.2 million households.

Not indexed to inflation, its amount of 152.45 euros remains the same as in 2023 for a person receiving RSA and living alone without children in mainland France and in the overseas departments, excluding Mayotte.

The amounts of the premium for RSA beneficiary households are progressive depending on the composition of the family.

FOR A SINGLE PERSON

• Without child: €152.45

• One child: €228.68

• Two children: €274.41

• Three children: €335.39

• Four children: €396.37

• Per additional child: €60.98

FOR A COUPLE

• Without child: €228.68

• One child: €274.41

• Two children: €320.15

• Three children: €381.13

• Four children: €442.11

• Per additional child: €60.98