Zoe Pallier 9:21 a.m., October 20, 2021

The State will allocate the sum of 500 million euros to the establishment of a commitment income for young people.

An employment assistance program reserved for 16-25 year olds, which has evolved over the years.

Indeed, if the cost was initially estimated at 2 billion euros, it now stands at half a billion. 

The government is putting in place a new aid for young people.

The commitment income device for young people will be introduced via an amendment to the finance bill for 2022. The allowance may be up to 500 euros per young person and per month.

The employment contract for young people must be presented on Thursday.

This allowance, reserved for 16-25 year olds engaged in an employment assistance program, should also make it possible to recruit new agents in local missions and at Pole emploi. 

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But the device announced this summer, even before being launched, has already melted.

The estimated cost of the device was 2 billion euros, when it was still called engagement income for young people.

Three months later, the envelope melted.

It would be 500 million euros.

For his part, Matignon now prefers to speak of a "contract of employment".

One way of insisting on the obligations of beneficiaries, who must follow professional integration pathways.

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The target of the aid system is also revised downwards.

Only "500,000 young people would be affected, or half less than initially planned. A less ambitious project, but this responds to the drop in unemployment, justifies the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire. The last arbitrations must be finalized this Wednesday noon. , before a debate on November 4 in the National Assembly.