A gas bill (illustration).

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DURAND FLORENCE / SIPA

Jump in regulated gas prices, encouragement for energy renovation work, compensated leave for caregivers, new calculation of partial unemployment compensation ... As every month,

20 Minutes

 explains everything about the changes that come into force on October 1 .

Gas

Regulated gas sales tariffs, applied by Engie to millions of French households, will jump 4.7% on October 1, the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) announced on Monday.

Without the price smoothing mechanism that had been adopted to prevent prices from rising too sharply, the increase would even have reached 7%.

Energy renovation

Energy renovation work started from October 1 will be eligible for the new, broader rules for awarding the public premium intended to encourage these acts.

However, it will be necessary to wait until January 1, 2021 to request this assistance, retroactively.

The new rules allow more affluent households in particular to benefit from this assistance as well as owners renting accommodation without occupying it themselves.

Caregiver leave

Caregivers who support elderly, sick or disabled relatives will be able to apply for a three-month paid leave from October 1.

The principle of such compensated leave - of a maximum duration of three months, but which can be renewed, up to one year over the entire career of the employee - was approved by the National Assembly in October 2019 .

The allowance, paid by the family allowance funds or the Mutualité sociale agricole, will be around 44 euros per day for people living as a couple and 52 euros per day for a single person.

Alimony

From October 1, the family allowance funds will offer a new service to single-parent families: they can serve as an intermediary between ex-spouses for the payment of alimony, in the event of unpaid bills.

Concretely, the families concerned will be able to seize the CAF - or the Mutualité sociale agricole (MSA) - which, as today, will not only be responsible for paying the injured parent an allowance of 116 euros per month, before turning to the bad payer. , but will now also be able to take on, in a sustainable manner, an intermediary role, so that alimony systematically passes through it.

The challenge, the government stressed, is to come to the aid of single-parent families - mothers in the overwhelming majority of cases - for whom the delay in the payment of child support is a source of aggravation of precariousness.

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  • Leave

  • Society

  • Family allowances