Social security budget 2023: 3,000 additional positions in nursing homes

Europe 1 with AFP 3:01 p.m., September 26, 2022

The nursing homes will be staffed in 2023 with 3,000 additional nurses and nursing assistants, the first stage of a plan which aims to create a total of 50,000 positions in these establishments by the end of the five-year term, according to the draft budget of the “Secu” presented on Monday.

This effort, estimated at 170 million euros, is intended to be "pragmatic", explained the entourage of the Minister of Solidarity, Jean-Christophe Combe, emphasizing in substance that it would have been unrealistic to plan more hiring for the moment. , given the significant recruitment difficulties in this sector.

Achieve the 50,000 jobs promised by Macron

These 3,000 positions therefore constitute a "start", but "the trajectory in the public accounts is planned in the coming years" to reach the 50,000 additional positions promised by Emmanuel Macron during his presidential campaign, we added from the same source.

Retirement homes will also benefit from 440 million euros in additional credits “in the coming weeks” to compensate for “the impact of inflation on non-wage costs”, and will be entitled, like individuals, to the “shield tariff" on the price of energy.

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In home help services, 4,000 additional places will be created in 2023, and the PLFSS is laying the groundwork for this sector for two other measures which will only apply from 2024. On the one hand, people elderly people helped at home will benefit from two additional hours for "social support" which will involve "memory stimulation" and the prevention of loss of autonomy.

And on the other hand, they will be able to more easily claim aid to adapt their housing to their progressive loss of autonomy, for example to avoid falls: this will pass, from 2024, by a device called "Ma prim'Adapt ", on the model of the energy renovation bonuses.