In search of savings, the government plans to increase from 14 to 18 years the age for revaluation of family subsidies paid from the second child onwards, the Minister of Health told AFP on Friday.
According to Le Parisien, this measure, if approved, would apply from March 2026 and would allow the State to save around 200 million euros in 2026. The increase in family allowances that occurs today from the second child’s 14th birthday allows, depending on the household’s income, aid from 18.88 euros to 75.53 euros per month.
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The ministry justifies this planning by a study by public statistics (Drees) that “recently questions a difference in costs generated by children under and over 14 years of age” and that “recommends maintaining the threshold of 18 years.” “It is justified that the level of support (family allowances, editor’s note) is adapted to the level of expenditure generated by the child, in accordance with the objective of this benefit,” the ministry continues.
The government wants to create new birth leave on top of existing maternity and paternity leave, allowing parents to take up to two extra months each to welcome their child.
The draft decree on family allowances should be examined together with the Social Security Financing Bill (PLFSS), whose examination will begin on Tuesday with the hearing of ministers in the Social Affairs Commission, before its arrival in the chamber at the beginning of November.
Source: BFM TV
