the Senate rejects the text to allocate the 100 euros for the benefit of “better targeted” measures

The Senate dominated by the right-wing opposition deleted, Wednesday, November 17, the “inflation allowance” of 100 euros from the government, flagship measure of the second budget bill rectified for 2021, to replace it with a strengthening “punctual” of existing devices judged “better targeted”.

The upper house of Parliament adopted by 145 votes in favor, 30 against and 168 abstentions, on first reading, this amending finance bill (PLFR) says “end of management” thus modified. The National Assembly will be able to restore the government text at the end of the parliamentary shuttle.

Announced by the Prime Minister in October, in reaction to the surge in fuel prices, “the inflation allowance” amounts to 100 euros and will be paid to 38 million French people, “employees, self-employed, retirees, unemployed, recipients of minimum social benefits, scholarship students, receiving less than 2,000 euros per month”, according to the government. Its cost is estimated at 3.8 billion euros.

Instead, the Senate voted by show of hands, with the sole votes of the Les Républicains group, an exceptional increase of 150 euros in the activity bonus, an exceptional allowance of 150 euros for beneficiaries of minimum social benefits and benefits social benefits, as well as an additional allocation for mobility aid paid on a case-by-case basis to the unemployed and young people on the path to integration.