FOOD CHECK. The Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire announced the abandonment of the food check this Monday, too complex to set up.
[Mis à jour le 12 septembre 2022 à 11h59] The food check seems to have been totally buried by the government, and in particular the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire: “we have not managed to build a system that is operational and fast” he declared on Monday, September 12 on LCI. This food voucher, announced since 2020 and too complex to set up according to the statements of the executive, aimed to allow the most modest to have access to healthy, organic, French food products from short circuits. His replacement is all found: the inflation bonus in the amount of 100 euros and paid on September 15th. Be careful however, a rebound cannot be ruled out. Indeed, the Minister of Agriculture Marc Fesneau gave a rather different speech on the airwaves of Sud Radio on Monday: “we are working on it (…) the idea is not rejected”. What put a little more uncertainty in the minds of potential beneficiaries.
The scholarship studentsthe beneficiaries of housing benefits (APL) even if they no longer live with their parents as well as the beneficiaries of social minima like the RSA, the ASS, the AAH, or the ASPA will not benefit from the food voucher, but from the inflation bonus on Thursday, September 15.
The Caf should be in charge of the payment for the beneficiaries of social minima (as for the payment of the first inflation bonus), Employment center for job seekers, or theUrsaf for the independents.
The implementation of the food check has proven to be more complex than expected for the executive and has seen several dates being brought forward over the months. Finally, the government decided during the Council of Ministers of July 7, theexceptional back-to-school assistance which for the time being replaces the food check will be paid from September 15, 2022. The food voucher, on the other hand, seems to have completely disappeared from the radar.
Obtaining the food check should be conditional on the income level of the beneficiaries. Recipients of certain social benefits should in particular be concerned, such as beneficiaries of APL, RSA, AAH or even Aspa. Apart from that, the payment should be made automatically via a bank transfer without any action on the part of the beneficiaries. In total, it is the 8 million poorest French people who will be able to benefit from this new inflation bonus or food emergency bonus at the start of the 2022 school year, i.e. 14 million people. This exceptional back-to-school assistance will also benefit the scholarship students and to the beneficiaries of theASS.
The amount of the food check or exceptional back-to-school assistance was made official by Government spokesperson Olivia Grégoire during a trip near Nantes on Thursday 29 June. It will be 100 euro plus 50 euro per additional dependent child. The information was confirmed during the Council of Ministers on July 7, 2022. For a family with two children, the aid will therefore increase to 200 euros, due to the two dependent children.
For the time being, we do not know who pays the inflation bonus according to the status of the beneficiaries. Referring to the organizations paying the first inflation bonus distributed to 38 million French people at the start of the year, here is who from the Caf or Pôle Emploi, for example, will pay this exceptional back-to-school assistance. For the moment, no decision has been made:
- Caf : recipients of social minima
- Employment center : jobseekers
- Scholarship students : Crous
- Officials : Etat
- Retired : CNAV
- Employees : employer
- Independents : Ursaf