FUEL INDEMNITY. Bruno Le Maire detailed the first outlines of a new aid on fuel, called fuel allowance. This kind of bonus paid at once would only be intended for people using their vehicle to get to their place of work.
|Updated July 7, 2022 at 5:20 p.m.] The indemnity fuel was certainly one of the important points of the purchasing power bill presented this Thursday in the Council of Ministers, the day after Elisabeth Borne’s general policy statement at the National Assembly. This is indeed new aid for the purchase of fuel, targeted aid reserved for certain households.
This will be the “fuel allowance”, as it was appointed by the Minister of the Economy, Bruno the Mayor, that is to say a kind of fuel bonus paid to future beneficiaries of this new system which should, in the short term, replace the fuel discount of 18 cents for all. This new aid affects a critical part of the budget of French households as the soaring fuel prices have been spectacular and have a heavy impact on the purchasing power of the French.
After the fuel discount of 18 cents in effect since the spring and until the end of the summer, the government is working on this new aid, more targeted and less expensive than the discount valid for all. The device would thus cost 2 billion euros per year against 800 million euros per month for the current fuel discount of 18 cents for all. The text presented this Thursday, July 7 in the Council of Ministers should then be debated in the National Assembly from July 18, during a highly anticipated sequence as the opposition is divided on this purchasing power law. Bruno Le Maire had already mentioned possible aid reserved for workers and heavy rollers, but he presented more of the outlines on July 7, 2022 at the microphone of Europe 1. Date of entry into force, principle, beneficiaries, we take stock of what we already know about this new fuel allowance.
When will this fuel allowance be implemented?
Bruno Le Maire mentioned the date of October 1, 2022 as possible date of entry into force of this device. “From October 1, in any case this is the proposal we are making, we are setting up this fuel allowance for workers”, explained the Minister of the Economy. The objective is to gradually replace this device with the discount of 18 cents valid since April 1st and perceived by Bruno Le Maire as “emergency”, “massive” aid but which must now give way to a “device more targeted. This fuel discount of 18 cents for all would be intended to disappear by the end of 2022.
How much will this fuel allowance be?
The contours of this new device are still unclear. Monday July 4, a representative of Bercy, questioned by the newspaper Le Parisien, evoked a payment “in one go”, with a “fixed amount for all, whether one makes 5 km or 30 km per day to go to work, and a bonus for big riders who do more than 12,000 km per year”.
Who will benefit from the fuel allowance?
Bruno Le Maire admits it, the choice made by the government is “political”, that of targeting people who work and go to their workplace by car. Bruno Le Maire did not mention resource conditions on July 7, but the system should still include income criteria. Asked by The Parisian on July 4, an official from Bercy thus mentioned the figure of “11 million households” concerned, i.e. “employees earning up to around 1,600 euros net per month”. But this point would not yet be completely decided and it will therefore be necessary to monitor the next measures of the purchasing power law and possible future decrees to find out more.
Unlike the fuel discount of 18 cents which was automatically taken into account at the pump, the motorists concerned will have to make a request this time to benefit from this new aid. “You log on to the website, you declare that you have a car, that you use it to go to your work and you receive this aid […]. The objective is very simple, it is to cover almost all of your fuel costs”. If the Minister of the Economy did not detail the device further, we imagine that you will have to enter the address your home and your place of work to obtain an estimate of the distances traveled in a professional context and to obtain adequate assistance.Caregivers, self-employed workers and itinerant workers will also be concerned.
A specific allowance for large rollers?
“If you are a heavy roller, you receive additional compensation”, explained Bruno Le Maire on July 7, 2022 at the microphone of Europe 1. Heavy rollers in a professional setting should therefore be particularly concerned by this new compensation scheme. targeted fuel.