The government coax the retired modest – Europe1

seven months of the presidential and full parliamentary discussions around the text budget, the temptation is great, for the government, giving little nudges here and there. Among those who can expect to benefit include the retired modest.

Fall of the CSG. In fact, the secretary of State for the Budget, Christian Eckert, took advantage Monday of the examination of the draft finance law of the social security commission at the Meeting to indicate that the government had “a position, rather open” on a drop of the generalized social contribution (CSG) for retirees of modest. According to one source of parliamentary, there would be an agreement-in-principle between the government and the socialist group of the Assembly on this point. The proposal was not of the first but of the rapporteur of the budget, the member for Tarn-et-Garonne Valérie Rabault. This last suggests that the pensioners whose pension is less than 1.255 euros monthly do not pay CSG. Is saving an average of 45 euros per month for approximately 480.000 retirees.

Find a financing. For the time being, nothing is set in stone. Because this measure would cost approximately € 260 million, so we’ll have to pay for it. “It will be necessary to find some offsets, that is to say, either from savings elsewhere or extra revenue,” said Christian Eckert on Monday. No question, in effect, digging the deficit. Valérie Rabault has already advanced a runway as possible : go back on a device the act Macron, which also lessened the social regime applicable to allocations of free shares, to recover, “between 250 and 300 million euros”. For the time being, this proposal is far from making the unanimity among the socialists.

tax Credit for individuals and employers. On the other hand, retirees with small pensions can already count on another boost tax : a tax credit for home-based employment. So far, this appropriation was reserved for only those assets. Retirees who had employed a maid or a auxiliary of life could not benefit from it. Now, they will also receive a cheque from the public Treasury, which will depend on the wages paid to the employee and can go up to 6,000 euros per year.

Paid-in 2018. For Christine, whose mother, aged 93 years, employs an auxiliary life-40 hours per week, this would be a breath of oxygen. “Use this lady costs [to my mother] 440 euros per month, or approximately 5,000 euros per year”, explains she. With this tax credit, his mother would “in the 2.500 euros per year, which would allow him to use this lady a little more often.” The device will be applied on the declared income as of this year, which will be offset in the summer of 2018. Some 1.3 million households are affected, of which half are aged over 80 years.