Question 16787 — personal services

Summary

Mr. Alexandre Allegret-Pilot draws the attention of the Minister of Labor and Solidarity to the consequences, for the elderly as well as for the personal services sector, of Decree No. 2026-261 of April 8, 2026 modifying the terms of application of the exemption from employer social security contributions provided for in Article L. 241-10 of the Social Security Code. This decree raises the age granting right to exemption from 70 to 80 years. employer contributions which until now benefited individual employers for the remuneration of an employee at home as a housekeeper, family employee, gardener or carer. Applicable from the reporting period of July 2026, this measure deprives all employers aged 70 to 79 from the benefit of the exemption, i.e. a major proportion of “young seniors” who use home help to continue living at home. The financial consequences are serious. According to the Home Employment Observatory, the measure leads to an average increase of 15% in the cost of home employment for the households concerned, with employer contributions being able to represent up to 40% of gross salary. For a few hours a week, the additional cost reaches several tens, or even several hundred euros per month. Maintaining credit tax of 50% does not neutralize this increase, which immediately weighs on the cash flow of households with often modest incomes. Many retirees, whose pensions have not kept pace with inflation, will have to reduce their employee's hours, or even forgo all assistance. This decision, taken by regulatory means and without public or parliamentary debate commensurate with its effects, comes into direct contradiction with the policy of support for home support and "aging well", notably enshrined in Law No. 2024-317 of April 8, 2024. It also poses a serious risk to declared employment: it encourages the use of hidden work and threatens the viability of home help associations and companies, already weakened. Several structures are already warning of imminent bankruptcy filings and layoffs, due to their inability to absorb this increase of charges. Consequently, he asks, firstly, what assessment the Government carried out, prior to the publication of this decree, of the number of households concerned, the loss of purchasing power of people aged 70 to 79 and the effect on employment in the personal services sector; secondly, what measures it intends to take to prevent the shift towards hidden work and the renunciation of employment assistance residence ; thirdly, if it plans to reverse this measure or, at the very least, to adjust it through a transitional system or a gradual increase in the age threshold, in order to preserve the elderly people concerned and jobs in the sector.

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