Question 15291 — personal services

Summary

Mr. Alexandre Dufosset draws the attention of the Minister of Health, Families, Autonomy and People with Disabilities to the contradiction between, on the one hand, the stated desire to promote the autonomy of seniors and, on the other hand, the provisions of the decree raising to 80 years (compared to 70 until now) the age giving right to automatic exemption from employer contributions for the employment of home help. Indeed, in application of Decree No. 2026-261 of April 8, 2026, this automatic exemption is now reserved for people aged at least 80, with implementation announced by Urssaf from the declaration period of July 2026. This development arouses great concern among many retirees aged 70 to 79, who thus find themselves deprived of a useful social benefit to finance a few hours of domestic help, accompanying or assistance in ordinary acts of daily life. For many of them, particularly low-income retirees and the middle classes, this assistance constitutes an essential element of staying at home, preventing loss of autonomy and combating isolation. By increasing the cost of declared use of home help, this measure also risks producing effects contrary to the stated objective. support for autonomy. It could lead certain households to reduce the number of declared hours, to forgo assistance which is nevertheless necessary, or even to encourage the return of undeclared work. It also weakens a sector already subject to strong recruitment pressures, even though the aging of the population requires, on the contrary, the consolidation of personal services. This decision appears all the more questionable that it comes in a context of strong pressure on the purchasing power of retirees, faced with the increase in constrained expenses, the cost of services, energy, housing and health expenses. It reflects a logic of budgetary savings which places the burden of adjustment on elderly people who are still independent, but sometimes already fragile, whereas public effort should primarily favor maintaining home for as long as possible. He therefore asks if the Government intends to reverse the increase from 70 to 80 years of the age giving entitlement to this automatic exemption, maintain the benefit of this system for people aged 70 and over and more broadly strengthen the measures allowing retirees to use declared home help without suffering a new increase in charges.

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