Between 4 and 5 million low-income employees will receive … – The Obs

Paris (AFP) – Manuel Valls said Tuesday the contours of the new “activity premium”, which will be aimed at low-income workers and replace existing devices considered too complex and not very effective from 1 January 2016 . Between 4 and 5 million workers will qualify.

Prime Minister presented the “Roadmap 2015-2017″ Five-Year Plan against poverty implemented in 2013, before the Council National policies against exclusion (CNLE) and a dozen ministers, meeting at the Ministry of Social Affairs.

On this occasion, he castigated the use of the word “assistant” to the against welfare recipients, denouncing “a stunning view of poverty as if it were a selected situation.” “I hear sometimes criticize social minima, and for several years has installed this terrible word of assistantship + + that has penetrated society and consciences,” he said.

Expected for two years, the reform of the current two devices help the working poor, the employment bonus (PPE) and RSA-activity was confirmed in August by François Hollande: the head of state announced merging them into a “business premium”, which called in a report on MP PS Christophe Sirugue.

The EPP has in fact for defects to be paid with a lag of one year, as any tax credit, and to be distributed widely (over 5 million beneficiary households in 2013), which resulted in a “dusting”. As for the RSA-activity, which complements a small salary to some 750,000 beneficiary households, it is requested that a third of people who qualify, partly because of its complexity.

Future premium activity to be included in the draft law on social dialogue and has already been hailed as “a real evolution” by the group of associations Alert, will have a budget of 4 billion euros year

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Manuel Valls promised “a simple device, which represent its beneficiaries systematic gain at the time of recovery or the increase in activity from the first euro and up to 1.2 minimum wage, or 1,400 euros, “he added.

According to the Prime Minister,” 4 to 5 million assets will be eligible for this new premium lines, including 700,000 to one million young people, “18-25 years can claim it in contrast to the RSA activity. It will be paid every month and “the amount will be set for three months, which will avoid the problems of adjustment and constant reminders”

Manuel Valls account on a “double effect”. ” This will, firstly, a boost to the purchasing power of workers with modest incomes to the purchasing power of those who also takes up work; it will be also an incentive device, a device that encourages and supports the recovery. “

He said the premium could reach” for example 130 euros a month for a single person working full time at minimum wage, 220 euros for a single mother with one child who works third time, and 230 euros for a couple with two children and a parent is a full-time minimum wage and the other half-time. “

The student union UNEF called for apprentices and students can also benefit. Manuel Valls assured that “certain subjects are open for discussion.” “The question will be asked for apprentices but also for the students.”

The head of government also considered “important to work on the creation of a simplified social minimum, renovated, from the merger of Social RSA and specific solidarity allowance (ASS) served the unemployed at the end of rights “, again to set up” a simple and effective device. ” Proposals will be made “by the summer,” he said.

But the leader of the CGT Philippe Martinez, “we will take the least poor to give to the poor is another sharing of miseries. ” FO for his part warned against “the principle to institutionalize a salary supplement” that might “encourage, by subsidizing the wage poverty.”