• The minimum wage earns 24 euros

The minimum growth wage (Smic) is automatically increased by 1.8% due to the rise in prices.

It increases to 1,353 euros net monthly, an increase of 24 euros.

Gross, for a full-time 35-hour week, the monthly Smic rises to 1,709 euros and the hourly Smic to 11.27 euros.

In the public service, the salaries of the 410,000 lowest paid agents will also be increased by 1.8% on January 1, 2023. 

  •    End of red stamp

La Poste will replace its red stamp for urgent letters delivered the next day with a dematerialized version.

The new formula, called "red e-Letter", will allow you to send documents of up to three sheets on the laposte.fr site or in a post office, via an automatic machine or with the help of a postman.

The document will be printed close to the recipient, enveloped and distributed the following day if it has been sent before 8 p.m. The service will cost 1.49 euros, compared to 1.43 euros for the current red stamp of the "priority letter ".

  •    Apprenticeship bonus

The premium for hiring apprentices will be 6,000 euros in 2023 for a minor as for an adult under 30 years old.

Currently, this aid is 5,000 euros for a minor, 8,000 for an adult.

  •    Fuel: end of the general rebate 

The general rebate on fuel at the pump is replaced by an allowance of 100 euros reserved for the 10 million most modest workers (annual reference tax income per unit less than 14,700 euros) using a car or two-wheeler to go to work.

You must apply for it on the impots.gouv.fr website.

  •    100 euros for first-time carpoolers

A bonus of 100 euros is promised to motorists who will start carpooling in 2023, on long journeys as well as on those of daily life (from a certain number of journeys).

  •    Ecological bonus

The amount of the ecological bonus for the purchase of an electric car is increased to 7,000 euros for half of the households, the most modest.

  •    Navigo at 84 euros

   The Navigo monthly subscription, necessary to travel on public transport in Île-de-France, increases by 12%, to 84.10 euros.

The single ticket increases to 2.10 euros.

  •    Electricity meters 

The reading of electricity meters becomes chargeable for customers who are not equipped with a Linky meter and who have not sent Enedis a self-reading during the last 12 months.

These customers will be charged a fee of 8.48 euros every two months levied by the energy suppliers.

  •    gas shield

The increase in regulated natural gas sales tariffs will be limited to 15%.

This tariff shield applies to residential subscribers (consuming less than 30 MWh/year) as well as co-ownerships with an individual natural gas supply contract. 

  •    Free condoms

All young people under the age of 26 can now obtain free condoms at the counter of pharmacies.  

  •    Birth screening

Birth screening, which aims to screen all newborns for rare but serious diseases, has been extended to seven new pathologies, bringing the total count to thirteen. 

The new diseases concerned are homocystinuria, leucinosis, tyrosinemia type 1, glutaric aciduria type 1, isovaleric aciduria, long-chain hydroxyacyl COA dehydrogenase deficiency and carnitine uptake deficiency.

  •    Disability: extended assistance

Deafblind people or people with intellectual, cognitive or psychological disabilities will be able to benefit from the Disability Compensation Benefit (PCH).

This funds a carer in order to obtain assistance in carrying out certain acts of daily living.

  •    Doubling the rate of new PELs

For the first time in 22 years, the rate of remuneration of housing savings plans (PEL) signed from January 1 will increase, to reach 2%, against 1% today. 

  •    No gas boiler with MaPrimeRénov'

The MaPrimeRénov' system will no longer subsidize the purchase of gas boilers, including those with very high energy performance. 

  •    Thermal colanders

In mainland France, dwellings consuming more than 450 kilowatt hours per square meter per year according to their energy performance diagnosis (DPE) can no longer be rented or re-rented.

They will henceforth be considered as indecent, like unsanitary accommodation or accommodation without a kitchen. 

  •    End of chick grinding

In the laying hen sector, producers must put an end to the routine elimination of male chicks by generalizing the sexing of embryos in the egg.

A derogation has been put in place for the males of white hens (approximately 15% of national production) on the grounds that it is more difficult to determine their sex before hatching.

  •    Crop insurance

A reform of crop insurance reviews the terms of compensation for farmers in the face of the trivialization of crop losses under the effect of climate change, and encourages them to take out insurance.

  •    End of assize rape trials 

Crimes punishable by up to twenty years' imprisonment, mainly rape, will now be judged in first instance by criminal courts, jurisdictions without popular jurors, and no longer by assize courts.

  •    Automatic Sentence Reductions  

This mechanism automatically offered detainees (apart from terrorism) sentence reductions, except for bad behavior.

From now on, it is a sentence enforcement judge who will be able to grant reductions only to detainees who have given "sufficient proof of good behavior" or who have shown "serious efforts at reintegration".  

With AFP 

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