Rise in the minimum wage, the general rebate on fuel replaced by an allowance for the most modest households, free condoms for those under 26… As every year, January 1 marks the entry into force of a series of measures , overview.
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 minimum wage rises to 1,709 euros and the hourly minimum wage to 11.27 euros. The minimum wage is subject to a mechanical increase each year on January 1, which takes into account the rise in prices. It can also be revalued during the year as soon as inflation exceeds 2%, but no automatic mechanism of this type exists for public officials.
In the public service, the salaries of the 410,000 lowest paid agents will also be increased by 1.8% on January 1, 2023.
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 documents of up to three sheets to be sent to the site laposte.fr or in a post office, via an automaton or with the help of a postman. The document will be printed near the addressee, put in an envelope and distributed the next day if it was sent before 8 p.m. The service will cost 1.49 euros, compared to 1.43 euros for the current red “priority letter” stamp.
This summer, the boss of the Service-Mail-Parcels branch Philippe Dorge had declared that it was a question of “consolidating the future of mail” and “sustaining the universal postal service”, which guarantees in particular a delivery six days out of seven and affordable rates for the most common shipments.
- 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 tax income of reference per unit less than 14,700 euros) using a car or two-wheeler to go to work. You have to request it on the site. impots.gouv.fr. In addition, 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). 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.
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. This announcement came after the release by the State of aid of 200 million euros which should allow the regional transport authority to balance its budget while limiting the increase in prices.
- Electric meters and gas loop
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.
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.
All young people under the age of 26 can now obtain free condoms at the counter of pharmacies. In recent years, the number of new diagnoses of HIV infection has not decreased in France, stagnating around 5,000 in 2021. In addition, according to Public Health France, 15% of people who discovered their HIV status in 2021 were elderly. under 25, and the share of this age group has not fallen since 2017.
- 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.
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.
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 and automatic sentence reductions
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.
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 prisoners who have given “sufficient proof of good behavior” or who have shown “serious efforts at reintegration”.
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.
