Pensions, rents, “Macron bonus” … This text provides for a total of 20 billion euros in expenditure.
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Parliament definitively validated the first part of the package of measures in favor of purchasing power, Wednesday, August 3, by a final vote of the Senate. This “emergency” bill, which covers a total of 20 billion euros in expenditure, was validated by 245 votes against 27, and 72 abstentions at the Palais du Luxembourg.
In particular, it provides for a 4% increase in retirement pensions and several allowances with retroactive effect from July 1, 2022, capping the increase in rents at 3.5% in France, and again tripling the ceiling for ” Macron bonus” that can be paid by employers.
In a rare unanimity, the deputies also added to the package of measures the deconjugalization of the disabled adult allowance (AAH) – a provision refused by the government during the previous legislature. In addition, the bill facilitates the restarting of coal-fired power plants and creates a derogatory regime to accelerate the supply of gas from a floating LNG terminal, to the chagrin of environmentalists.
Parliamentarians will also try in the evening to agree on the second part in favor of purchasing power, included in the rectified draft budget (PLFR) for 2022, which was voted on at first reading overnight by the Senate and could be definitively adopted on Thursday.
This second component provides, for its part, the financing of 9.7 billion euros for the nationalization of EDF, the continuation of the fuel bonus, the revaluation of the index point of civil servants. It also relates to disputed provisions such as the abolition of the audiovisual license fee, the sustainability of the possible takeover by RTT companies or even a possible biometric vital card.