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Prime Minister Jean Castex has announced the establishment of an inflation allowance which will amount to 100 euros. In particular, it should make it possible to help cope with the rise in fuel prices.
Thursday, October 21, Prime Minister Jean Castex announced that an inflation compensation will be put in place. A check for 100 euros will be paid to people receiving less than 2,000 euros net per month. This particularly concerns employees, the self-employed, civil servants, students and retirees, as well as job seekers and beneficiaries of minimum social benefits.
To receive this aid, the French will not have to do anything. It will be paid directly in December for employees, job seekers and the self-employed. Civil servants will have to wait until January 2022 and the aid will be paid in February 2022 for retirees. The measure was not greeted with enthusiasm by a recently unemployed woman who found that “100 euros is not much”. Another man interviewed in a gas station prefers to put things into perspective. “As soon as we can get help from the government, we will happily accept it “, he says.