At the heart of the summer holidays, many changes are to be expected from Monday August 1st. Among them, several economic measures taken to deal with inflation, which rose further in July and reached 6.1% over one year, in France, according to the latest INSEE figures published on Friday. Franceinfo lists the news to expect from Monday.
The 2.01% increase in the minimum wage
Due to high inflation, the minimum wage (minimum interprofessional growth wage) will automatically increase on August 1 by 2.01%. For full-time work, the monthly minimum wage thus goes from 1,302.64 euros to 1,329.06 euros net. The hourly minimum wage is changing from 8.58 euros to 8.76 euros. This is the fourth increase in the minimum wage in less than a year, the last having taken place on May 1, with an increase of 2.65%.
In addition to its annual revaluation on January 1, the minimum wage is automatically increased during the year by the amount of inflation (calculated for the 20% of households with the lowest incomes) if this exceeds 2% in relation to the latest increase.
The rise in the passbook A rate
The passbook A rate, the most widespread savings product in France, reached 2% from August 1, thus returning to its highest level since 2012. This is the second increase this year, after a first doubling of the rate in February 1, from 0.5% – a historic low – to 1%.
The doubling of the rate, proposed by the Governor of the Banque de France on July 14 and accepted immediately by the government, is explained by the rise in prices observed in recent months.
Another notable increase: that of the rate of the People’s Savings Book (LEP), reserved for people with modest incomes (maximum 20,296 euros per year for a single person), which goes from 2.2% to 4.6%. We have to go back to 1998 to have a comparable rate (4.5%).
The end of the state of health emergency
After more than two years of pandemic, the state of health emergency, an exceptional legal framework decreed in the face of the crisis, ends on August 1, after the adoption, on July 26, of the bill by Parliament.
Only two measures remain on the agenda: continued monitoring of the pandemic, which makes it possible to know the number of cases or hospitalizations, and the possibility of imposing a negative test for travelers leaving or returning to France or overseas.
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The measures of constraint of daily life provided for by the emergency regimes, including the rthe use of confinement as well as the curfew, can no longer be reinstated.
The dissolution of the Scientific Council, which gives way to a committee
He accompanied the French for more than two years to follow the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Scientific Council is dissolved from Sunday July 31, corresponding to the end date of the state of health emergency regime.
After the end of July, a committee for monitoring and anticipating health risks must take over. This committee, which will no longer be chaired by Professor Jean-François Delfraissy, will be made up of specialists in human and animal health and the environment.
This new committee will be set up in the coming days, said the Minister of Health François Braun, on franceinfo, Wednesday. It will be made up of 19 members, some of whom could come from the Scientific Council, we learn in a decree published on Sunday. This committee, responsible for monitoring “health risks related to infectious agents affecting humans and animals, environmental and food pollutants, and climate change”should in particular “Issue recommendations when a screening reveals a health risk”. Its missions will therefore go beyond the Covid-19 “given the risk of emergence of other viruses”underlined François Braun.
The tripling of the “Macron bonus”
The ceiling of the bonus for purchasing power will increase from 2,000 to 6,000 euros net for companies that have signed a profit-sharing agreement or those with fewer than 50 employees.
Set up in 2019, in a context of the “yellow vests” crisis, this tax-free “Macron bonus” can be paid by employers between August 1 and December 31, 2023. In private, the premium may be made permanent in the form of a “value sharing premium”, which will be exempt from social security contributions.
The extension of the “fuel discount”
It was supposed to end in July. The “fuel discount” of 15 cents per liter excluding taxes, applied since April 1, was extended until August 31 by the National Assembly during the examination of the amending finance bill.
La measure, to be specified by decree, will then increase from 18 to 30 euro cents in September and October, then to 10 cents in November and December.
The 3.5% revaluation of the index point for civil servants
The approximately 5.7 million civil servants will also have a good surprise on their payslips for the month of August. Frozen since 2017, the index point for civil servants will increase by 3.5% from August 1, with retroactivity to July 1.
Faced with the unprecedented level of inflation, we took an exceptional measure: the general increase in the index point of the #Public service by 3.5%.
This is the biggest increase for 37 years! pic.twitter.com/4ihuzzoqM1
— Stanislas Guerini (@StanGuerini) June 28, 2022
According to the site service-public.fr, this is the largest increase in thirty-seven years. This increase was one of the measures of the emergency bill for purchasing power adopted at first reading by the National Assembly on July 22.
Payment of the back-to-school allowance
The back-to-school allowance (ARS) will also be paid at the end of August, subject to means, to families with at least one school-going child, aged 6 to 18. It is part of the benefits that must increase by 4% under the “purchasing power” bill to cope with inflation.
For the start of the 2022 school year, the amount is 376.98 euros per child aged 6 to 10; 397.78 euros per child aged 11 to 14 and 411.56 euros per child aged 15 to 18.