Bonus activity expanded : the first payment arrives

The premium of activity extended will be paid for the first time on 5 February. 3.5 million homes are expected to benefit.

enlargement of the access conditions to the premium of activity was the strong responses of Emmanuel Macron to the crisis of the vest yellow. This premium "enhanced" must be paid to the beneficiaries by Funds for family allowances (Caf) for the first time on Tuesday 5 February.

The number of recipients has reached 3.5 million homes in January, with 700,000 more since the announcement of its increase was outlined by the prime minister Édouard Philippe on Monday during a trip to Beauvais. In total, five million households are now eligible, compared with 3.8 million before", which represents an investment of € 2.5 billion for the State.

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This payment, however, is not automatic : eligible persons, on the basis of the income of their household, must make application to the Fca. All persons in the minimum wage will only benefit no more of this increase. About 55 % of them are concerned. The calculation for benefit takes care of the family situation and resources of all members of the household.

After a transition to the Fca of the Oise, where he met a claimant eligible and the staff, the prime minister praised the "great simplicity" to make the request and welcomed a "figure quite largely in excess of what we had hoped".

The government, which has launched a campaign to encourage the French to claim the bonus, planned for January 400 000 beneficiary households in addition to 1.2 million homes eligible for additional.

The bonus on "all assets", employees but also of "farmers, government officials, and independent," said Édouard Philippe. For all of the five million households that are eligible (7.6 million people, counting spouses and children) may benefit more easily, the government "is working, but it will be later in the year because it is a technical work, complicated, devices that will make it even simpler access to the premium activity".

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