2024-10-23 20:32:00
Parliamentarians «we are working on a bill” to continue using these vouchers for food shopping, said the Secretary of State for Consumer Affairs, Laurence Garnier.
The government is “favorable” to the possible extension in 2025 of the use of food stamps for food shopping, said Secretary of State for Consumer Affairs Laurence Garnier in an interview with Parisian . “Today what I can tell you is that the government is in favor of extending this exemption”the minister declared to the newspaper, also recalling that the parliamentarians “we are working on a bill on this topic”.
The government recently announced that it will be subject to the extension of the use of meal vouchers for the purchase of products not directly consumable in supermarkets (flour, pasta, rice, meat, etc.), in force from 2022 and appreciated by users. of arbitration “in the next few days”.
“Accompanying the French”
This initiative has been described as “scandal” by Thierry Marx, president of Umih, the main employers’ organization of restaurateurs. Meal vouchers “they were created for restaurants” and their extension to large-scale distribution deprives restaurateurs of an estimated windfall “576 million euros”he told RMC ten days ago. The other trade union in the sector, the Groupement des Hôtelleries & Restaurations de France (GHR), has recognized that consumers see “an advantage in terms of purchasing power” but begged not to “continue to direct all food stamps towards mass distribution”.
“Today inflation tends to slow down, but we must continue to support the French”for his part, the Secretary of State questioned by the Parisian. However, she said she was open to discussion: “We will let the PLF (Budget Law) and the PLFSS (Social Security Financing Budget Law) pass and I will receive all interested parties early next year”he promised.
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