Question 15251 — people with disabilities

Summary

Mr. Bartolomé Lenoir draws the attention of the Minister of Labor and Solidarity to the particularly worrying situation of disabled workers, deprived since January 1, 2025 of the benefit of the accumulation between their disability pension and the activity bonus. Until December 31, 2024, this system allowed many beneficiaries to combine these two resources, helping to secure their professional career. Since January 1, 2025, this possibility has been removed for the majority of interested parties, with the exception of certain beneficiaries falling under a particularly restricted transitional regime. For certain workers, particularly part-time workers, the loss of income can reach up to 2,000 euros per year. This reduction occurs in a context marked by the increase in the cost of living and is added to the constraints linked to exercise an activity in a disability situation, such as increased fatigue or additional costs (transport, accommodation, support). Such a development is likely to weaken job retention, or even discourage professional activity, due to an unfavorable financial differential. Furthermore, this suppression takes on a particularly heavy psychological and symbolic dimension for establishment workers. and work support services (ESAT). For these workers, the activity bonus was not perceived as a simple additional resource but was experienced as concrete recognition, a form of reward for their commitment to work, a tangible sign that they were considered, at least in part, as workers in their own right. It constituted a marker of belonging to the ordinary world of work and its rights. ESAT workers work in a specific medico-social framework which does not fall under common labor law: they are not employees within the meaning of the labor code, do not benefit from the minimum wage and their status remains legally distinct from that of the ordinary worker. Access to the activity bonus represented one of the rare symbolic and financial bridges between their situation and that of other workers. This decision comes into direct contradiction with the orientations of public policies which, for several years, have tended precisely to bring ESAT workers closer to common law and to strengthen their social and professional inclusion (right to professional training, access to occupational medicine, supplementary health coverage, development of provision in ordinary companies). Removing the activity bonus sends a signal contradictory: on the one hand, the State recognizes these workers as full participants in the world of work and extends common rights to them; on the other, it excludes them from one of the main support systems for professional activity. In this context, he asks whether the Government intends to restore the assimilation of disability pensions to professional income for the calculation of the activity bonus, or failing that, what measures it plans to implement in order to compensate for the loss of income suffered by these workers and not compromise their continued employment, and finally how it intends to reconcile the removal of this system with the stated policy of bringing ESAT workers closer to common law.

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