While evictions of tenants can resume from Saturday, unemployment insurance benefits and social benefits will be upgraded.
Upheavals in several areas are to be reported on Saturday, April 1. While unemployment benefits and social benefits will be increased due to inflation, the fuel allowance and the bonus for replacing the boiler are coming to an end. After five months of application, the winter break is also coming to an end. Here’s what’s changing in April.
The end of the winter break
After five months of suspension, the evictions of tenants who have arrears of rent can resume. It also becomes possible again to cut off electricity and gas to households in the event of non-payment, in certain cases. For households that benefit from the energy check and the housing solidarity fund (FSL), a new decree requires suppliers to first reduce power for at least 60 days before implementing the cut.
EDF, the historical electricity supplier, no longer carries out such cuts, however, reducing the power supplied in order to ensure a “minimum service” (light, refrigerator, telephone charging).
Unemployment benefits and revalued social benefits
Unemployment insurance benefits will be increased by 1.9% on April 1, an exceptional boost due to inflation. The decision was taken by Unédic’s Board of Directors. It’s about a “first”because until then, only one revaluation took place per year, on July 1st.
Social benefits, in particular the RSA, the activity bonus and family allowances, will also increase, by 1.6% on April 1. This rate was established from the average of the monthly inflation rates for one year, i.e. +5.6% compared to April 2022. But the real increase has been reduced to +1.6% because the government has taking into account the exceptional increase of 4% which had been granted “anticipated” in July 2022. A decision strongly criticized by associations fighting against precariousness, who consider this increase very insufficient, even “indecent”.
The rate of wear noted for home loans
The usury rate, which sets the upper limit for new loans, will be raised on April 1 from 4% to 4.24% for fixed-rate mortgages with a duration of 20 years and more.
This ceiling rate set by the Banque de France includes all the costs of a home loan: credit rate charged by the bank, borrower insurance, any brokers’ commission, etc. Since February 1, it has been exceptionally adjusted every month. , for a period of six months.
End of fuel allowance
Faced with inflation which is eating away at the purchasing power of the French, the government had implemented, in January, a fuel allowance of 100 euros for the 10 million most modest tax households using their car to go to work, replacing the general rebate at the pump which ceased at the end of 2022. An indemnity for which a request had to be made before March 31.
The end of the bonus for boiler replacement
The State is also putting an end to the bonus of 1,000 euros hitherto paid for the replacement of an oil or gas boiler with renewable energy equipment, a bonus which was initially due to end in 2022 and had been extended. three additional months.
MyPrimeRenov limited
In April, the MaPrimeRénov state system, intended for energy renovation, will no longer subsidize certain “mono-gesture” projects – development of attics, insulation of roof terraces, insulation of walls from the outside or inside – intended for wealthier households.
The mandatory energy audit to sell a poorly insulated house
The owners of a house or a poorly insulated building, classified F and G, must now carry out an energy audit before selling it. In addition to the energy performance diagnosis (DPE), they will also have to present this document which lists the work to be carried out to improve the classification of the dwelling, their amount and the aid available to finance them. “These works are not compulsory to conclude the sale, but the purchaser will be informed of their nature”specifies the Public service site.
The reclassification of sexist contempt as a crime
In France, the police can verbalize the perpetrators of street harassment in flagrante delicto with a specific offense called “sexist outrage”, created by the Schiappa law in 2018. From April 1, sexist outrage becomes a misdemeanor and no longer an offence, as specified in the decree of March 30 published in the Official Journal, and can be punished with a fine of 3,750 euros.
Payment of the energy check “from April 21”
The 2023 energy check will be paid “from April 21″ at approximately “5.8 million households”announced on March 13, the Minister of Energy Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher on the airwaves of RMC.
This check, the amount of which varies between 48 euros and 277 euros, can be used until March 31, 2024. There is no procedure to be taken for the beneficiaries.