2024-03-17 19:38:00
Around half the minimum wage, disabled people rarely have an interest in receiving a raise or working more. Marcos / stock.adobe.com
CHRONICLE – The social assistance maquis still conceals numerous inconsistencies. Some French people have no interest in working more, others in formalizing their life as a couple.
Nine social minimum schemes, fourteen types of aid targeted towards parents… The wind of simplification, promised by Emmanuel Macron, has not yet blown over the French social assistance maquis. From reform to reform, social and tax systems have even become so complicated that political powers no longer seem to know which lever to control them. Astonishing aberrations are also hidden there. Many French people therefore have no interest in working more, otherwise they would suffer a loss of income. This is the case, for example, for disabled people, who receive a disabled adult allowance (AAH) and housing assistance (APL).
«A disabled person paid part-time at the minimum wage loses money if they work a few hours more or if their employer is naive enough to increase it », advances the liberal think-tank Aire, in its latest report dedicated to negative tax. In detail, around half a minimum wage, when the employer increases his employee by 100 euros…
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