+ DOCUMENT – To reduce the deficit of Social Security, the government plans to reduce benefits for the birth, child care, youth. Parental leave will be reduced for mothers
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Families will again be leveraged to reduce the deficit in Social Security. This (general scheme and Old Age Solidarity Fund) will not melt this year, but stabilize at 15.4 billion euros. To the refluxing 13.4 billion next year, the government include developing economies Family branch, to the tune of 700 million euros. This will reduce the deficit of the industry 2.9 billion euros to 2.3 billion, according to the bill funding the Social Security (PLFSS) presented Monday. If the savings in Medicare are more important (see page 3), 3.2 billion, are the shots of the plane on domestic policy that are most react.
In April, the Prime Minister announced savings of 800 million euros over three years in the family branch, without going into detail. Finally, there will be no freeze on family benefits in 2015, as decided this summer, because the measure was not sufficiently “profitable.”
Parental leave: the portion reserved for fathers increases
However, parental leave is back on the job barely reformed. From the second child, mothers will no longer be entitled to two and a half years off like today. The Equality Act Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, passed in July, had already planned to introduce six months off dedicated to fathers on the envelope taken three years so far is attributed equally to both parents – but 96% is consumed by mothers. As he is no longer permitted to surrender parental leave to the mother, most men should give it up. And it is this portion reserved for men who will again be raised to a level set by decree and not yet determined. This will allow to save several hundred million euros. But the government presents it as a way to help women return to the workforce. “Three years is too long for the return to work” says it within the executive. Moreover, these restrictions appear to him all the more bearable it is committed to creating 275,000 places for childcare by 2017 While this is theoretical, since this program has been delayed. The reform of parental leave, which was due to 1 st October will probably effective in January.
In addition, a number of services will be revised down, without breaking the taboo of universal child benefit. The additional type of care offered to households employing a childminder or a nanny at home is going to depend a little more income. The management of social security contributions by the family allowance does not change. However, the monthly allowance paid to families will be more gradual, with the creation of a fourth installment that will cover 20% of families with a child under six years (they will receive half before). For the government, it is to redirect aid towards the poorest households.
This modulation is subject to regulatory action, as the end of the increase allocations to 14 years. Today, when one of the children this age, the family receives 64 euros more each month, compared to a basic benefit amounts to 129 euros for two children or 295 euros for three. This increase will gradually be shifted to 16.
Changing the baby bonus, it requires a law. The amount is 923 euros per child today. It will be divided by three from the second child, because on the one hand, other benefits are triggered at this stage and, on the other hand, families have already bought stroller and crib, it is argued the government. This should generate savings of € 250 million. A set of measures complained virulently Monday by family associations, which are called “stunned” and the opposition. The leader of the UMP, Christian Jacob, denounced “an unprecedented onslaught of the family” . For him, these measures are “reveal a complete lack of courage to carry out structural reforms. “
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