CSG, education, fuel prices … What to remember from the interview of Edouard Philippe
MIL OSI Translation. Government of the Republic of France statements from English to French –
The Prime Minister was, Thursday, September 20, the guest of the morning of France Inter. Here are, point by point, the main topics that Édouard Philippe mentioned during the show.
CSG and retirees
Tens of thousands of retirement homes are at the limit of the income threshold that triggers the full rate of CSG [€ 14,404 for a single] and make, each year, due to small variations in income, back and forth between reduced rate (3.8%) and normal rate (8.3%). These round trips exasperate the pensioners concerned.
The Prime Minister announced a few months ago that the Government would present in the Social Security Financing Bill for 2019 a measure in their favor. He specified the contours on France Inter.
Henceforth, “it will be necessary to be passed for 2 years continuously, above the threshold to be concerned by the increase of the CSG rate”. In total, between 300,000 and 350,000 retirement homes will benefit from this measure in 2019. This is an effort of 350 million euros.
The 2018 CSG will not be repaid, the new rule will have its effects on retirees who risk entering the normal rate and are not yet there.
Beyond the topic of the CSG, the Government acts and invests in policies favorable to retirees: “When we invest more than 400 million euros additional in the health system, it is not a choice that is without interest for retirees. When we embark on a reform to find long-term funding mechanisms for addiction, it is not at all an uninteresting choice for retirees. ”
Maternity leave
In terms of maternity leave, the Government will “make sure to improve the situation, including women farmers and self-employed women” and increase their rights “by increasing the minimum period of leave to 8 weeks, 2 before delivery and 6 thereafter “and” increasing to 16 weeks the total duration of entitlements “(compared to 10 weeks today).
The issue of paternity leave will be dealt with later. “Our priority is maternity leave. We must guarantee the rights of all women to the arrival of a child. ”
National Education
The figure of 1,800 posts eliminated at the National Education is a net balance, which breaks down as follows:
1900 creation of posts in primary
2600 job cuts in secondary
600 job cuts in private education
400 deletions of administrative posts
The Government fully assumes a rebalancing from secondary to primary because it is in the primary that largely plays the future success of students. “We know that to ensure that the French population is better educated, better armed against the world that comes, we must put the package on primary school. »1,800 posts deleted in net, it is less than 0,2% of the jobs of the National Education.
In addition, teachers will be better paid. Overtime, which school heads can use more, will be exempt from employee contributions. REP + teachers will receive from this year a bonus of 1000 € net, and this premium can go up to 3000 € in 2020.
Contracts helped
Assisted contracts as they existed before have been replaced by “Career Skills Pathways”, which are more effective because they force employers to train and support beneficiaries.
The philosophy: to help people more than contracts to provide permanent access to employment at the end of the contract (until now, only a quarter of beneficiaries of subsidized contracts in the non-market sector had access to sustainable employment contract).
In 2019, there will be approximately 130,000 “Career Skills Pathways” funded, against 200,000 budgeted and 130,000 to 150,000 actually implemented in 2018.
At the same time, other levers will be activated to promote the return to employment:
3 billion euros invested in skills (PIC)
Redesign of the support of the beneficiaries of the RSA towards employment through the poverty plan (faster orientation, more adapted training and integration offers, reinforcement of integration through economic activity …).
Fuel prices
The rise in fuel prices is explained “partly because of the decisions we make, [but especially] because of changes that are absolutely not the responsibility of the Government. In 2018, “between 50 and 70% of the increase is due to changes in the price of raw materials”.
The increase in the carbon tax is an assumed choice: “We have chosen to lower the tax on labor and increase the tax on pollution”.
Purchasing power measures were also taken in favor of motorists, including the conversion premium. This bonus, of € 1,000 for taxable households and € 2,000 for non-taxable households, aims to encourage owners of vehicles that are too old, and therefore too polluting, to buy a car that is clean and uses less fuel.
Six months after its launch, nearly 150,000 bonuses were awarded, 70% of which went to non-taxable households: the solidarity ambition of the premium is fully realized.
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