The return of the “fuel check”. In his television interview on Sunday evening, Emmanuel Macron announced new financial aid to motorists to compensate for high fuel prices, based on the “fuel check” model distributed in January 2023. This measure will be included in the budget of 2024 and will therefore not be paid this year.
Aid of 20 cents per liter for 6 months
This new aid could “reach 100 euros per year,” stated the President of the Republic, without specifying whether the amount will be the same for everyone. According to Bercy, this represents an aid of 20 cents per liter for six months for an average motorist, that is, traveling an average of about 12,000 kilometers per year with a vehicle that consumes 6.5 liters every 100 kilometers.
As with the previous fuel check, this new subsidy will be reserved for people who need their car to go to work. Therefore, you will have to be in a professional activity (which excludes retirees or students, for example) and own a vehicle to benefit from it. However, this compensation will be paid per person and not per household: if both members of a couple each use a car to go to work, both will be able to benefit from this “fuel check.”
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Furthermore, this new compensation will continue to be reserved for the poorest 50% of French people, that is, those whose income falls into the “first five deciles” of income.
If we base ourselves on the criteria of the 2023 fuel check, a single person must receive less than 1,314 euros net per month, a couple less than 3,285 euros if they have one child and less than 3,941 euros if they have one or two, or even 3,285 euros for a single woman with two children.
However, these thresholds will be updated, Bercy says, but they define the characteristics of eligible people. According to Bercy, this measure should cost public finances between 450 and 500 million euros and could affect around five million households.
Source: BFM TV
