PREMIUM INFLATION. After job seekers and CAF recipients, retirees are the next beneficiaries of the inflation bonus. Are you eligible? Who pays it, when? All the answers to your questions.
[Mis à jour le 31 janvier 2022 à 12h41] Are you retired and worried because you still haven’t received your inflation bonus of 100 euros? Do not panic. After employees, CAF recipients and job seekers, the turn of retirees soon came. Precisely, the inflation bonus should be paid to the 12 million pensioners concerned in the month of February 2022.
Set up by the executive to try to fight against rising consumer prices, the inflation bonus of 100 euros will benefit a total of 38 million French people. Two simple conditions are incumbent on retirees to claim the inflation bonus:
- Receive a monthly pension of less than 2,000 euros net
- To be a French resident
If you are retired and meet the two mandatory conditions, the inflation bonus of 100 euros will be paid to you during February 2022. No specific date has yet been announced. Please note that you will not receive your inflation bonus at the same time as your pension payment. According to the health insurance, the indemnity will be paid to you at the end of February.
If you receive a pension from general schemeL’Retirement insurance will pay you the inflation bonus in the amount of 100 euros. Remember that the service of pensions of the State will pay this premium only if the Retirement insurance or the MSA does not pay it.
Regarding the beneficiaries of a asbestos early retirement (early retirement allowance for asbestos workers, ACAATA) if the level of pension paid is less than €2,000 net per month, this time the inflation bonus will be paid by the employer. Beneficiaries of early termination of activity (end-of-activity leave), subject to compliance with the income conditions and beneficiaries of the solidarity allowance for the elderly (ASPA) are also affected.
Retirees working in cumulative employment retirement or under the phased retirement will also receive the compensation within the framework of their activity, paid by their employer or for the self-employed, the organization in charge of the payment.
The inflation bonus is paid between December 2021 and February 2022. Payment must be made through several channels, depending on the beneficiary’s situation. Here is the payment schedule envisaged by the government:
- End of December 2021: this is the date on which employees received their inflation compensation, directly on their payslip. The employer is responsible for the payment, before being compensated by the State in a second step. The self-employed are also affected by this deadline (the Urssaf then take care of the payment), as are scholarship students (compensated by the Crous).
- End of January 2022 : the State proceeds to the payment of the inflation allowance for civil servants, jobseekers (via Pôle emploi), invalids, students receiving PLA and recipients of social minima (via the Family Allowance Fund).
- February 2022 : it is at this deadline that retirees must receive inflation compensation, via their pension fund.
Announced by the government in the fall, it is aimed at the middle classes, regardless of their status:
- Private sector employees
- Officials
- Scholarship students and students receiving the APL.
- Retirees and seniors receiving the ASPA
- Freelancers and self-employed
- job seekers
- Beneficiaries of social minima (RSAAAH…)
The bonus of 100 euros is granted on an individual basis. In other words, the composition of the household is not taken into account to determine eligibility for inflation compensation. Thus, a couple can receive up to 200 euros, ie 100 euros each or only 100 euros if only one of the spouses meets the income conditions (see below). In total, 38 million French people will benefit from the 100 euro inflation check.
But who is affected? To determine eligibility for the inflation allowance, the government has determined a ceiling: are therefore concerned French people who earn less than 2,000 euros net per month – before application of the withholding tax -, regardless of their status and profession. To determine the reference salary, the executive has chosen the month of October 2021. Would you like to know more about the 100 euro bonus? Linternaute.com answers all your questions. Consult our dedicated file now:
On the side of civil servants, the inflation premium has indeed arrived. The payment was made on Thursday January 27 with your payslip. 2.5 million of civil servants are affected by the payment of this indemnity. But then, what are the criteria for accessing it? In the same way as for retirees, two conditions persist. Receiving a net monthly salary lower than €2,000and be French resident. Please note that bonuses and overtime are taken into account in order to calculate the reference income. Moreover, the part-time civil servants can fully benefit from inflation bonusjust like an agent in sick leave or absent due to maternity leave. Also note that a civil servant cumulating several fixed-term contracts with various employers will receive the inflation bonus if his cumulative working time with the same employer is equal to 20 hours. Otherwise, the payment of the inflation bonus will not be automatic.
The objective of the bonus of 100 euros is to respond to the distress of the most modest households, whose finances are being undermined by galloping inflation. Foodstuffs, energy prices… Many goods and services have increased in recent months due to the strong economic recovery following the coronavirus health crisis. Initially, the executive had worked on the establishment of a fuel check, intended for households that own a vehicle, and who have seen the fuel bill explode with the rise in oil prices. However, this system has proven to be very difficult to implement, so much so that the government preferred to abandon it, opting for a broader solution, and allowing households to pay for expenses other than the fuel.
To be eligible, you must win less than 2,000 euros net per month, i.e. 2,600 euros gross for the month from October 2021, whether you are a civil servant, employee, self-employed or retired. Note: this ceiling of 2,000 euros net corresponds to your remuneration before deduction at source. On the payslip, it will therefore simply be necessary to check the line “net payable before income tax“, above “net payable”.
Please note: if you are on a short contract (excluding temporary work), the payment of the 100 euro bonus is not automatic “if the cumulative working time with the same employer is less than 20 hours”, warns the government in its file of hurry. “It will assume that the beneficiary expressly reports to one of his employers, preferably the one with whom the employment relationship is still ongoing, or failing that the one for which they worked the most hours during the month of October. “. What about other situations? Linternaute.com summarizes them for you:
- For retirees : you receive the minimum old age (ASPA) or the total amount of your pensions (general scheme, supplementary, survivor’s pension, etc.) is less than 2,000 euros net in October 2021. “The assessment of resources will be made on the basis of the amount of basic and supplementary retirement pensions (eg AGIRC-ARRCO), including survivors’ pensions [du mois d’octobre 2021]“, it says.
- For independents: you must have been active in October 2021 and have declared to the Urssaf or the MSA an activity income of less than 2,000 euros net per month “for the year 2020”, it is indicated. “The net income retained is that calculated during the annual declaration of income”, it is recalled. “If the activity is created over the period January-October 2021, this condition will be considered satisfied”.
- For the self-employed : your turnover must be at least equal to 900 euros between January 1, 2021 and September 30, 2021. “This amount must also correspond to an average income of 2,000 euros net per month over the period, which corresponds , taking into account the application of tax deductions according to the nature of their activity, to an average monthly turnover of: €4,000 for craftsmen; €6,897 for traders; €3,030 for the liberal professions”, we complete in the press kit.
- For job seekers : you must not be working and your allowance must be less than 2,000 euros net.