It is a check from the government, for an amount ranging from 50 to 200 euros, for the French heating themselves with wood. The platform to request this aid announced this fall by the executive in order to support households in the face of soaring energy prices was initially to be put online on Thursday, December 22, but the French can request it from this Tuesday, December 27. .
The exceptional aid for households heating mainly with wood “will concern 70% of households heating mainly with wood”, or “2.6 million households, for a total budget of 230 million euros”, according to Bercy.
According to the decree published Friday, December 23 in the Official Journal, the check will reach 100 or 200 euros for French people whose reference tax income is less than 14,400 euros and 50 or 100 euros for those whose tax income is between 14,400 and €27,500. “For exemple”, specifies the government on the Internet“a couple with a child who earns less than 4000 euros / month in 2020 and who heats mainly with wood will be able to receive 100 euros”.
The amount of the check depends on the type of fuel used: households who heat with wood pellets are thus entitled to double the aid provided for those who use logs, sticks or chips.
As the government states on the Internetthe “wood check” will be “accessible on request from the Services and Payments Agency (ASP), upon presentation of a registered invoice proving a purchase of wood for a minimum amount of 50 euros (or a certificate for households with collective heating)”.
Households will be able to request it on the site. https://chequeboisfioul.asp-public.fr. They will be able to apply for this aid until April 30, 2023 and the checks will be sent from “mid-February 2023”. The government specifies that the “wood check” can “be used with a wood seller, but also with other suppliers for any energy bill (electricity, natural gas, fuel oil, etc.)
- Other government assistance
The “wood check” is used exactly as the “energy check”“. The latter is paid each year to 5.8 million low-income households to help them pay their electricity and gas bills. In 2022, the “energy voucher” was sent automatically by post from March 30 These 2022 energy vouchers, for an amount that can vary between 48 euros and 277 euros per year, can be used until March 31, 2023.
In order to help households in the face of soaring energy prices, the executive also announced the sending of an exceptional “energy voucher” to 12 million households between the end of December 2022 and the start of the year 2023. Beneficiaries of the “energy voucher” paid for 2022 will receive an additional “energy voucher” of 200 euros.
A counter has also been open since November 222 for a “fuel cheque” ranging from 100 to 200 euros and which should benefit 1.6 million low-income households heating with fuel oil and who have not been able to benefit from the shield put in place to electricity and gas.
