Individualization of disabled allowance: new rejection by deputies

Required by oppositions in the name of “social justice”, the measure was postponed by the majority of electoralists.

Le Monde with AFP

The National Assembly again said no, Thursday, December 2 in the evening, to an individualization of the adult disabled allowance, claimed by oppositions in the name of “social justice”, but repulsed by the majority pointing of the electoralists.

The bill containing this sensitive measure was examined at third reading during a “niche” dedicated to the texts of the French Communist Party (PCF). The “deconjugalization” of the adult disabled allocation (AAH) is to calculate the AAH without taking into account the revenues of the spouse, contrary to what is done today.

His holders from the left to the right passing by the Allied majority group of the majority reminded that some people with disabilities have led to choose between living as a couple at the risk of seeing their allowance decrease, or conserve it but in renounce their union on the legal point. “This price of love is unacceptable” and the rule in force “contrary to the most elementary humanity”, hammered the Rapporteur Stéphane Little (PCF).

“We will not let go,” said Pradié Aurélien (Republicans), who had also worn the subject in October in front of the Assembly.

“Impasse”

The majority of the Republic in the Democratic Movement (LRM-Modem) questioned “the meaning” of this proposal on the AAH “a few months of the presidential election”, and invited these opponents to wear it in the countryside.

The government is against “deconjugalization” that it deems inequitable, because benefiting modest as well as to the fortunates. It also presents it as a “impasse” likely to call into question “the whole French social protection system based on family and national solidarity”, a repeated position in the hemicycle by Sophie Cluzel, the Secretary of State Disabled people. “I do not see any of the social justice,” she repeated, evoking, for example, people with disabilities financially assuming their families and who could lose the allowance in case of deconjugalization.

The majority voted via the budget 2022 a formula judged “more redistributive”: a fixed abatement of 5,000 euros on the revenues of the spouse, an estimated average gain at 110 euros monthly for 120,000 couples from 1 sup> Er January. “This government sets out real rights, not of the incantatory,” according to M me Cluzel.

The bill, emptied of its flagship measure, can return for a third reading before the right majority Senate, which had voted again in October very largely in favor of “deconjugalization”. But it would take an agreement of the Assembly for a definitive adoption of the measure. With a maximum of 904 euros monthly, the AAH, designed to offset the inability to work, now has more than 1.2 million beneficiaries, including 270,000 in couple.

/Media reports.