A new month begins and this time it is the last of the year. With it comes its share of new developments and changes. Versement de la prime de Noël, fin du bonus vélo mais nouveau bonus auto, fin des malus Agirc-Arrco pour les nouveaux portraits, date limite pour correger sa déclaration de revenus et aide financière pour les victims de violences conjugales: voici ce qui va changer in December.
• Bonus: payment arrives in December
On December 15, the most modest households will receive the bonus. This bonus is aimed at households that benefit from certain social minimums: active solidarity income (RSA), fixed bonus for returning to work, specific solidarity benefit (ASS), retirement equivalent benefit (AER). You must have been a beneficiary of one of these bonuses in November and/or December 2023 to obtain the bonus.
Its amount depends on the family situation of the home. For a person who lives alone, it is 152.45 euros and can reach 457.35 euros for a single parent with five children (more details here). No action is required to obtain the bonus, payment is automatic.
• Agirc-Arrco: the end of sanctions on new retirees
From December 1, Agirc-Arrco will no longer reduce the supplementary pension applied to all new retirees who have worked long enough to benefit from the full basic pension but will refuse to extend it.
Since 2019, the organization has offered future pensioners to work one more year or retire immediately, but with a pension reduced by 10% for three years. This principle will no longer apply to new retirees, but also to those to whom it applies. Thus, everyone will receive 100% of their complementary pension as of April 1, 2024.
• End of bike bonus
Aid for the purchase of bicycles was reinforced and expanded in September 2022. Therefore, on December 31, this bonus will end, which will have allowed the most modest to equip themselves with a bicycle.
This voucher offers aid of 150 euros for the purchase of a new bicycle without electrical assistance, up to 400 euros (subject to income) for an electric model and up to 2,000 euros for a cargo bicycle. During the month of December, applications can still be sent on the website of the Ministry of Energy Transition, Conversion Bonus.
• New vehicles eligible for the ecological bonus
The list of vehicles eligible for the ecological bonus will be expanded on December 15, announced the Environment and Energy Management Agency (Ademe). It is not yet clear which vehicles will be added.
This purchase aid aims to favor vehicles (new or used) with a low carbon footprint. It is conditional on numerous criteria, including the ecological score of the vehicle and the tax income of the applicants.
The ecological bonus is intended for the acquisition of a new vehicle: electric passenger cars of less than 47,000 euros and weighing less than 2.4 tons, electric vans as well as two or three wheels and quadricycles with an electric motor. The amount of aid can be up to 5,000 euros for a car and 6,000 euros for a van.
• Income Tax Return: until December 6 to correct it
There are only a few days left to modify your tax return online. After December 6 this will no longer be possible. Corrections are made online even if you have benefited from automatic declaration.
To do this, you must log in to your personal space and click on “Access online correction”. Once the error has been corrected, you must validate. A new tax notice will be issued after processing the corrective return. The tax withholding rate will be updated after receiving a corrected tax notice.
• Delete inactive Google accounts
Is your Google account going to disappear in December? Yes, if you haven’t used it for more than two years. The group warned last May in a blog post. This is not the first time. 3 years ago, Google had already implemented a similar policy, but it only referred to files stored in Gmail, Google Drive and Google Photos and not the account itself. On this occasion, the American group will delete accounts that have been inactive for two years as well as all content from Google Workspace (Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet and Calendar), YouTube and Google Photos.
Only professional accounts associated with companies or schools will be saved. Other users should receive a reminder message in the account email address and recovery email before deleting the account. To prevent deletion, you will need to connect to your email inbox or, more simply, watch a YouTube video to transform an inactive account into an active account.
• Financial assistance for victims of domestic violence
On Saturday, the decree implementing the law establishing emergency financial aid for victims of domestic violence, voted in Parliament in February, was published in the Official Gazette. This financial aid, from 250 to 1,300 euros, will be paid from December 1 to help victims face urgent expenses in case of accommodation and separation.
The government will also test a “new starter package” in five departments, with a CAF agent in charge of “organizing, with local associations, the departure of women,” announced the minister responsible for Equality between women and men of Bérangère Couillard.
This year security forces recorded 244,000 victims of domestic violence. This is double the number in 2017. In 2022, 118 women died at the hands of their spouse.
Source: BFM TV
