This March 6, Bruno Le Maire announced the establishment of a food check for the most modest. It should be managed by the departments and an experiment will be organized in the coming months. Update on this device.
Shunned by the government in recent weeks, the food check seems to have regained its favor. On March 6, the Minister of the Economy announced that it would be set up soon. “There will be good for the most modest, those with the lowest incomes, a food check”, confirmed Bruno Le Maire after a meeting with representatives of large retailers. He also indicated that this food check will be implemented on a territorial basis by the departments in order to “to be closer to consumers and agricultural producers“.
When will we be able to benefit from the food voucher?
“An experiment will be launched by the Ministers of Agriculture Marc Fesneau and the Minister of Solidarity Jean-Christophe Combe in the next few months“, said Bruno Le Maire. Promised by Emmanuel Macron during his campaign for his re-election, this food check, the amount of which has not been indicated, was originally intended to allow low-income households to buy fresh products. To limit the effects of inflation, Bruno Le Maire also announced a “anti-inflation quarter”, starting this March.
Who can benefit from the food voucher?
The food check proposed by the government will be paid to the poorest familiessaid Bruno Le Maire.
How much will the food voucher be?
For now, the government has not yet communicated on the amount of the food check. Initially, the Familles Rurales association and the National Federation of Farmers’ Unions (FNSEA) had proposed the establishment of a food check in the amount of 65 euros per month. For the association, it now corresponds to the monthly budget that the most precarious households lack to access healthy food.
For its part, the FNSEA had proposed the establishment of a food voucher of 100 euros per year. For the device to work as well as possible, the syndicate proposes the creating a flash code system on telephones, which would facilitate checkout. For President Christiane Lambert, “the latter makes it possible to directly target precarious populations, improves the quality and variety of their food, without inducing the destruction of value in our sectors”, she wrote in a letter addressed to the general manager of Carrefour Alexandre Bompard to talk about the excesses of the anti-inflation basket.