Question 2095 — people with disabilities

Summary

Mrs Laurianne Rossi questions the Secretary of State, attached to the Prime Minister, responsible for disabled people, on the rules governing the allocation of the disabled adult allowance (AAH). France today has 12 million people with disabilities. The daily economic and social difficulties that these citizens are likely to face are known. No one is safe from seeing each other one day faced with a situation of disability and the strength of character, the combativeness that these people demonstrate on a daily basis compels us. The gradual increase in the disabled adult allowance, of 90 euros by 2019, from which more than a million citizens benefit, represents in this regard a strong measure supported by the Government. However, the criteria for awarding this allocation must be questioned. Since the law of June 30, 1975 creating the AAH, its amount is subject to a ceiling calculated on the basis of the couple's income. Around 25% of AAH beneficiaries are affected to date. However, matching the amount of the AAH to the spouse's income returns the beneficiary to their situation of dependence, can limit their financial autonomy or even call into question their union project. Furthermore, the revaluation of the AAH from 2018 would be accompanied by a reduction income ceilings for people living as a couple, to bring them closer to those of other social minimums such as active solidarity income (RSA). However, the AAH, if it is a social benefit, compensates for a personal hazard, often irremediable. This revision of the marital resource ceilings could thus lead to the cancellation of the benefit of the AAH revaluation for people living as a couple. This device, likely to reinforce the unequal treatment between single people with disabilities and those living in couples as well as their level of dependence, would be experienced as a profound injustice by the fellow citizens concerned. This is why she asks him if the Government is considering, on the one hand, the deconjugalization of the resources taken into account, which many associations and parliamentarians have been calling for since many years, and to also review the system for harmonizing marital resource ceilings.

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