Question 17377 — elderly people

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Mr. Philippe Juvin draws the attention of the Minister of Labor and Solidarity to the consequences of Decree No. 2026-261 of April 8, 2026, published in the Official Journal on April 10, 2026, which raises the age giving right to exemption from employer contributions applicable to elderly individual employers using home help from 70 to 80 years. This measure raises two concerns. First, it brutally modifies an old device, created in 1987, which benefits a large number of elderly, independent, often retired individual employers who use home help to maintain their living environment and, more broadly, to prevent isolation and loss of autonomy. According to information provided by the Federation of Private Employers of France, 348,000 private employers aged 70 to 79 would be directly affected. The rest to hourly charge would increase from 10.62 euros to 12.21 euros, an increase of 15%. This increase could lead to a drop in the number of hours declared, estimated at 5.7 million hours per year, the equivalent of more than 3,000 full-time jobs in the home employment sector. Then and above all, this decree poses a major legal security difficulty: although published on April 10, 2026, it provides for an entry into force retroactive to January 1, 2026. Hundreds of thousands of households are thus exposed to regularization of contributions for periods that have already passed, even though they had organized their use of home help on the basis of the law applicable at the time of declared employment. Such retroactivity is difficult to understand for elderly individual employers, who have neither administrative services nor a capacity for anticipation comparable to that of professional actors. Beyond the expected budgetary yield, estimated at around 95.9 million euros per year according to the data transmitted, this measure risks producing effects contrary to the objectives stated by the public authorities: renunciation of home help, development of undeclared work, weakening of employees at home and less prevention of loss of autonomy. He asks him, on the one hand, what instructions have been or will be given to the URSSAF National Fund concerning the treatment of contributions paid since January 1, 2026 according to the previous rules and whether a tolerance is envisaged for the periods prior to the publication of the decree; on the other hand, what assessment does the Government make of the impact of this measure on the volume of employment declared in the home help sector? and whether it considers support or mitigation measures enabling declared employment to be preserved and independent elderly people to be kept at home.

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1. 28 July 2026

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