About 200 people, including many people with disabilities, gathered in Paris on Sunday to demand that the calculation of the disabled adult allowance (AAH) is no longer subject to the partner's income.
"I do not share my handicap, nor my AAH" or "Handi pride, my AAH, my autonomy", was it thus written on the many signs on a black background brandished by several of them, walking or rolling in a circle. at the call of several collectives and chanting slogans.
The individualization of the AAH for people in a couple is a flagship measure of a bill that will be discussed Thursday in the National Assembly.
In committee, the government and the majority unraveled this measure, worrying the associations: “From 2,000 euros in income for the spouse, we are no longer entitled to the AAH, protests Pascale Ribes, president of APF France Handicap, on the forecourt of the Town Hall.
The resources of a spouse do not make the handicap disappear and one is thus at the mercy of his companion.
They are already put to the test and in addition they have to maintain us, it is unworthy ”.
Pascal Ribes then asked the LREM deputies not to vote for this text: "It is a debate which transcends political divisions."
Progress kept in committee
Some signs accused Emmanuel Macron or Sophie Cluzel, Secretary of State for disabled people, of being "handiphobic". In the midst of wheelchairs, HIV patients, deaf people or even guide dogs, as well as caregivers, lawyer Elisa Rojas, who suffers from a genetic disease causing weakening of the bones, declared: "Even if we lose this battle, after having already lost the battle for accessibility, we will win the war for autonomy. Why should we choose between love and justice? "
“I spend most of my time at home, within my four walls. I have not worked for fifteen years and I live with my wife who works and assists me, said Dominique Barrot-Morigny who suffers from multiple sclerosis. If it can bring more to be there, so much the better ”. In his chair, with one arm in a cast, the 60-year-old came from Versailles. “We are trying to put one last pressure to move the lines. In addition, disabled women are often more victims of domestic violence, ”explains Fatima, disabled motor in a wheelchair. The reform was amended in committee but kept an advance: more than 60% of the 150,000 couples whose recipient of the AAH is inactive would thus keep their allowance at 903 euros, instead of 45% of couples today. Created in 1975,the AAH is intended to compensate for the inability to work. It is paid on medical and social criteria. More than 1.2 million people benefit from it, 270,000 of whom are couples, for an annual expenditure of around 11 billion euros.
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