Increase in gas prices
The Energy Regulatory Commission has communicated its benchmark gas sales price grid for the month of December 2024: for cooking and hot water, it will cost €0.14135/kWh and for heating, 0 .11,237 €/kWh. This is the average price for customers connected to the GrDF network. That is, compared to the prices for the month of November, increases of 2.2% and 2.8%, points out UFC-Que Choisir.
Increase in prices for medical consultations with general practitioners…
Following the national agreement between private doctors and Health Insurance, approved by decree in June, the prices of medical consultations will increase, from 22December. “A visit to the GP will cost €30, compared to €26.50 currently. For children under 6 years old, the consultation will increase to €35, compared to €31.50 until now,” details the Service-Public.fr website.
…and among specialists
Furthermore, consultations with several specialists will increase in December, particularly at pediatricians : from €38.50 to €39 for a child under 2 years old and from €33.50 to €35 for a child aged 2 to under 6 years old. Among other increases, those of consultations at the psychiatrist, neuropsychiatrist or neurologist (from €51.70 to €55), at the child psychiatrist (75 €), the medical gynecologist (from €33.50 to €37) or the geriatrician (from €31.50 to €37). Finally, melanoma screening consultation with the dermatologist will go from €47.50 to €54. Further increases will take effect in July 2025.
Tramadol or codeine: the prescription obligation finally postponed
Still in the field of health, the obligation of a secure prescription to obtain medicines containing tramadol or codeine, which was initially due to come into force on December 1, was finally postponed to March 1, 2025, announced the National Medicines Safety Agency on November 25.
Payment of the Christmas bonus
The Christmas bonus, this exceptional end-of-year bonus paid automatically to beneficiaries of minimum social benefits, will be paid the 17December. To receive it, you must have received, in November or December 2024, active solidarity income (RSA), a specific solidarity allowance (ASS) or a retirement equivalent allowance (AER). More than 2.3 million households are eligible. And its amount, which varies depending on the number of children and marital status, is the same as in 2023, with a minimum, for a single person without children, set at €152.45.
Opening of Parcoursup
An appointment is made just a few days before the start of the Christmas holidays: it is indeed December 18 that the Parcoursup platform will officially open for the 2025 session. From that day, the map of available training courses will be available online, and each of them will have a presentation sheet. Registrations will begin on January 15, 2025.
New this year: data made available
Parcoursup 2025 will offer future students something new: a section will present “information on the profile of candidates admitted in previous years (academic level, choice of course in high school, etc.)”, as well as “new data on success and integration » of the targeted training courses.
Correction of the tax return
According to the impots.gouv.fr website, there are only a few days left to possibly correct or modify certain information in your tax return. Either, until 4Decemberby connecting online to your “Private Space”. Please note that if this declaration was made via the tax service’s mobile application, changes can only be made by smartphone. The deadline does not change, and is still set for December 4.
Property tax and housing tax
The tax site also reminds you of the deadline for monthly payment of property taxes or housing taxes on second homes for the year 2025: this will be December 15 for the start of samples in January or December 31 for the start of withdrawals in February with catching up on the January deadline. Furthermore, payment deadlines have been set for the housing tax on second homes (au 15December), the housing tax on vacant housing and the tax on vacant housing (
to December 16
). For these three taxes, in case of online payment, the deadline has been set
to December 21
.
Revaluation of salaries in the hotel and catering industry
Minimum wages in the hotel and catering sector will benefit from a boost. The minimum will thus increase to €12 gross per hour, according to the amendment of June 19, 2024, the recommendations of which are made obligatory by a decree published in the Official Journal on November 9. These new salaries will be applied from 1
is December.
End of the Pinel system
It was mid-2023: the government at the time had announced the end of the Pinel system on December 31, 2024, ten years after its implementation. Named after the Minister of Housing at the time, Sylvia Pinel, it allows individuals who invest in new or renovated housing to benefit from an income tax reduction if they are rented. A tax loophole deemed too costly by the Executive. And, in September, the Court of Auditors estimated that the system, which cost more than 7 billion euros, did not meet its objectives.
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