2023-08-16 12:52:42
By Julien Da Sois
Posted 24 minutes ago, Just Updated
“The increase that we see is 10% on average on school supplies,” says the FCPE. Tatjana – stock.adobe.com
This aid, paid to the most modest families, was increased by 5.6% this year. It reaches for this back to school between 398 and 435 euros per child, depending on their age.
It is this Wednesday that around 3 million households are paid the back-to-school allowance, intended to help the most modest families to pay, in particular, for their children’s school supplies. If it was revalued by 5.6% this year to cope with inflation, allowing it to reach between 398 and 435 euros per child, it is still too little for parents’ associations. “This is a significant boost in the context of inflation that we know but unfortunately it will not be enough to withstand the shock of inflation that families experience on a daily basis.“, Estimated this Wednesday morning on Franceinfo Grégoire Ensel, national president of the federation of parents of FCPE pupils.
While overall inflation in France rose to 4.3% over one year in July according to INSEE, it is much higher for school supplies. “The increase that we see is 10% on average on school supplies, and it varies greatly depending on the item of expenditure. We are +14% for stationery, +9% for artistic materials…“, affirmed Grégoire Ensel, taking up the figures of a study carried out in July by UFC-Que Choisir. The GfK firm also assesses the increase at 9.4% since last year, estimating the average price of a back-to-school product purchased this year at 3.36 euros.
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An investigation launched by the DGCCRF
The other big federation of parents of pupils, the PEEP, is of the same opinion. “This revaluation remains lower than inflation so unfortunately it is insufficient today“, lamented his spokesperson Laurent Zameczkowski, questioned by RMC. «It is all the basic supplies, such as pens or notebooks, which are the most impacted (by inflation). (…) We must also anticipate questions related to the canteen, school outings, etc.“, he adds. Faced with this growing weight in their budget, some families are even forced to restrict themselves. According to the GfK firm, purchases of pencils, notebooks and other glue sticks for the start of the school year are down 3.9% (in value) compared to last year, and even 12.4% in volume. .
In this tense context for the portfolio of families, the FCPE calls on the government to “put on the table“free school supplies”for all families“. On Franceinfo, Grégoire Ensel also says he expects the investigation launched in July by the Directorate General for Competition, Consumption and the Repression of Fraud (DGCCRF) “on the price increases of school suppliesgives birth to real decisions.
«Today we ask the Minister of National Education [Gabriel Attal] and Olivia Gregoire [ministre déléguée chargée du Commerce] to have a working group so that we can clearly understand the results of this survey (…), see what we can do, see how we can learn from these increases and above all prepare for the next school year“, he declared on the antenna of the public radio. On X (formerly Twitter), Olivia Grégoire indicated on Wednesday that the DGCCRF was going to give her the conclusions of its investigation “by the end of August». «If some (distributors) have unduly made margins, it will allow us to know“, she said.
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