L’The fuel allowance for low-income workers and high-speed commuters will be implemented on October 1 and the 18-cent rebate will disappear at the end of the year, Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire announced on Thursday. “We are going to replace the 18 cents which will be reduced to 16, 12, 10, we will do it very gradually, but at the end of the year there will be no more fuel discounts, and from the 1is October, in any case, this is the proposal we are making, we are setting up this fuel allowance for workers, ”said the minister on Europe 1.
The new allowance may be requested by simple declaration on the site of the Directorate General of Public Finance, specified the Minister, adding that if “your home and your place of work are very far away or that you are for example itinerant because you are caregiver, you declare that you are a heavy roller and you will have additional compensation, ”added Bruno Le Maire. The goal, according to the minister, is to cover “virtually all of your additional fuel costs” incurred due to the rise in oil prices since the outbreak of war in Ukraine.
He further indicated that the current rebate of 18 centimes per liter of fuel cost 800 million euros per month while the new device would cost only 2 billion euros per year. “It’s proof that we don’t want whatever it takes. Our public finances do not allow it, ”said Bruno Le Maire. He quantified the purchasing power measures to be presented Thursday afternoon in the Council of Ministers at “twenty billion euros” against 25 billion previously mentioned.
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