The decline in family allowances would affect 10% of families – The Tribune.fr

The modulation of family allowances based on income will apply from 1 July. It appears that it concerns fewer households than expected, according to an internal note of the National Family Allowances Fund (CNAF) unveiled by the daily Les Echos.
Was one of the key measures of the project law of financing social security (PLFSS) 2015. The government decided to halve the basic amount of child benefit for couples with two children earning a net monthly income of 6,000 euros. Now they would receive 64.75 euros instead of 129.35 euros for family allowances (AF). And from 8,000 euros net monthly income, the AF will be divided by four, 32.34 euros.

But each additional child increases the ceiling of 6,000 and 8,000 euros extra 500 euros. Result “only” 505,000 families will see the amount of their AF down, lower than the 600,000 households initially estimated by the government. In the end, only about 10% of the 5 million beneficiaries would be affected.
Of the 505,000 affected households, 90% have incomes that put them in the 20% of the richest French … it was d Besides the object of measurement. Which helped to tell the Prime Minister this Wednesday, April 8 as “modulation of family allowances was a social justice measure.”
Finally, according to the CNAV, loss average would amount to 127 euros per month.
However, if the families have in their ranks at least a teenager, the loss will be greater. Indeed, the same PLFSS had planned to also modulate based on the gross revenues of 64.67 euros paid by CAF for each child over 14 years (except for the eldest of a family of two children). In this case, 154,000 families will lose and are on average 51 euros that will not be levied under this allocation by households.
According CNAF, the modulation of AF will allow annual savings (full year ) to € 865 million, slightly higher than anticipated by Bercy (EUR 800 million).