Question 18048 — family benefits

Summary

Mr. Romain Daubié draws the attention of the Minister of Health, Families, Autonomy and People with Disabilities to the criteria for awarding the shared child education benefit (PreParE), which hinders the equitable distribution of parental responsibilities. Today, the amount of PreParE varies depending on the level of professional activity of the parent who reduces or ceases their activity. The benefit is thus paid to partial rate when professional activity is less than or equal to 50%, or when it is greater than 50% and less than or equal to 80%. This operation, designed on an individual scale, does not allow certain forms of sharing of the reduction in working time between the two parents to be taken into account. This is particularly the case in homes in which each parent works 90% in order to take turns caring for their child. However, the current conditions for granting this benefit may lead to the exclusion of certain couples who have nevertheless chosen a reduction in working time shared between both parents. Thus, a couple can decide that each works 90%, for example alternating being with the children every other Wednesday. In this configuration, the couple collectively devotes 20% of their working time to taking care of caring for the children, an overall reduction equivalent to that of one parent working 80% while the other works 100%. However, since the reduction is shared between the two parents, the couple may not meet the conditions allowing them to benefit from PreParE. This situation may appear paradoxical in view of the objective pursued by the system, namely, to encourage the presence of parents with their children. and encourage sharing of family and professional responsibilities between the two members of the couple. Beyond the sole financial question, this difference in treatment can also lead families wishing to set up a balanced sharing of their parental time to depend on the agreement of their employers to obtain a reduction in working time, whereas recourse to PreParE, when possible, constitutes a device regulated by law. In this context, the MP wishes to know if the Government intends to relax the conditions of access to PreParE in order to authorize a pooling of the reduction in working time at the household level. He would also like to know whether any changes are being considered to ensure that schedule arrangements favoring shared parenting are enforceable against employers.

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