A young person in a Pole emploi branch (illustration image).

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With the health crisis, the Youth Guarantee must become a "right" open to all precarious young people with the crisis, claims a report submitted to the government.

The number of beneficiaries of this allowance to promote the integration of those furthest from employment should double in 2021.

The Youth Guarantee offers a monthly allowance (for a maximum amount of 497 euros) and intensive support, individual and collective, on a local mission for one year to young people aged 16 to 25 who are "neither in employment nor in studies or in training ”and in a situation of financial insecurity.

New, less strict criteria

Created at the end of 2013 and generalized in 2016, this system is considered effective: according to the Dares, at the end of 2019, three quarters of the beneficiaries have a level below the Bac and 43.5% of them have found a job, training, a work-study contract, or a business creation.

But it concerned only 100,000 beneficiaries in 2019 because the entry conditions "exclude a certain number of precarious young people", according to Antoine Dulin, president of the Youth Policy Orientation Council, a commission placed with the Prime Minister who produced the report.

The report proposes in particular to review the conditions of resources and to remove the criterion "without employment, neither studies, nor training" because this excludes, for example, employees occupying "food jobs" on very short contracts.

A "gateway" for all

He suggests not limiting the duration to one year, which is too short to access housing, and not focusing support solely on employment to reach people who have other difficulties, such as unaccompanied minors.

“The Youth Guarantee should be the gateway tomorrow for all support courses for young people in precarious situations since it combines support and guaranteed resources,” explains Antoine Dulin.

"It is an allowance in the amount of the RSA but with support which has always been the weak point of the minimum social RMI / RSA", from which 16-25 year olds do not benefit, he adds.

This will involve strengthening local missions in terms of staff and premises.

"It is essential to continue to pay local missions 1,600 euros for each young person monitored because the strength of the Youth Guarantee compared to the RSA is that the support is funded".

For him, there is “a window of opportunity” with the government's desire to finance at least 200,000 Youth Guarantees in 2021.

Tuesday, Elisabeth Borne, in favor of a "Universal Youth Guarantee" rather than a youth RSA, pledged "that each young person is not prevented from entering a path to employment because he would have a remuneration problem ”.

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