Question 14552 — family benefits

Summary

Mr. Abdelkader Lahmar draws the attention of the Minister of Health, Families, Autonomy and Disabled People to the dramatic impact of the postponement of the increase in family allowances for age from 14 to 18 years. This measure came into force on March 1, 2026 following the publication in the Official Journal, on February 28, 2026, of decree no. 2026-138. The High Council for Family, Childhood and Age (HCFEA) therefore adopted, on 10 March 2026, and subsequently published a note assessing the drop in family allowance spending, the number of families affected, as well as the effects on the standard of living of these families and the poverty rate. The estimates contained in this note are staggering. Low-income and large families will be most affected. For precarious households, the cumulative shortfall will ultimately exceed 3,600 euros per child over four years. ! The HCFEA concludes: “As a result of this measure, some families will fall into poverty; for other families already in poverty, the intensity of poverty will be reinforced. After scaling up the measure, the estimates made for the Family Council by the OFCE indicate that the family poverty rate will increase by 0.2 points. However, these scandalous antisocial effects were predictable. From the first discussions around the PLFSS 2025, the main family associations and the HCFEA warned of the risks incurred for low-income families. The HCFEA then issued an unfavorable opinion on this measure as part of its analysis of the PLFSS 2026. In January 2026, the Cnaf board of directors voted against the draft decree, by 21 votes against and 14 taking note. Nothing happened: as in his usual, the Government has come through in force! How can we understand such a reform when the family sector is in surplus and the OECD estimates that the “cost” of a child jumps by 66% from the age of 14? How can we understand such a reform when the poverty rate is breaking historical records in the country, the rate of material deprivation has peaked at 13.5% in 2025 and child poverty is increasing and intensifying? How can we even give credence to public speech when a Government which speaks indiscriminately of “demographic rearmament” thus attacks the budget of families? There is only one explanation. This Government which uses and abuses warlike metaphors in its communication is indeed at war: at war against families, at war against the most modest, at war against the French people! Locked up that he is in its absurd supply-side policy which only results in enriching billionaires, increasing the profits of multinationals and widening income inequalities; the Government has no other option than to destroy the social system by attacking ordinary families and the most vulnerable in an attempt to maintain a hypothetical budgetary balance. He therefore asks him these elementary questions, namely when the Government will repeal this unjust and antisocial reform and when he will stop governing against the people and their interests.

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