APL, retirement pension, gas, banking scams, everything that changes from October 1, 2024

“Small pensions”: an increase of around €50

The most modest retirees, receiving the “contributory minimum”, will benefit from an average increase of 50.94 euros per month in their retirement pension. as part of the pension reform. Objective : raise the pension of retirees who have had a full career paid at the legal minimum wage (SMIC).

Housing aid: + 3.26%

Personalized housing assistance (APL) is revalued every 1^is october. The increase depends on the evolution of the rent index (IRL), which increased by 3.26% in the second quarter of 2024. However, and as the Public Service website specifies, “for each beneficiary, the level revaluation of the APL depends in particular on his city of residence, his family situation and his resources.

Bank scams

As we wrote recently, the technique of scammers aiming to use your bank’s telephone number is now controlled: telephone operators have activated a number authentication mechanism for calls made from or to landlines.

Spoofing consists of misleading the consumer as to the identity or location of the person calling them, by not displaying, on their telephone, the real number from which the call originated. These scams represented nearly 380 million euros in 2023.

Natural gas prices: new increase of 5.36% over one month

If gas prices had fallen slightly last September, benchmark prices for natural gas are increasing again au 1^is October 2024: +5.36% on average.

The energy regulation commission (CRE) publishes the benchmark sales price of gas every month (since the disappearance of the regulated price of natural gas on 1^is July 2023). This is the baseline for pricing energy suppliers.

Au 1^is October, the average gas sales benchmark price is set at €137.20/MWh including tax (all gas consumption combined), compared to €130.21/MWh including tax on 1^is September 2024.