Question 7050 — housing: aid and loans

Summary

Mr. Nicolas Ray draws the attention of the Minister to the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty, responsible for industry and energy, to the use of “energy vouchers” by tenants of private parks to pay their energy costs to their lessors. Created by the law relating to the energy transition for green growth and generalized on January 1, 2018 as a replacement social energy tariffs, the “energy check” makes it possible to individually allocate to around 5.5 million households aid of an amount between 48 and 277 euros intended for the payment of energy bills. This aid, subject to a resource ceiling, takes into account both tax income and the size of the household. The effectiveness of this system no longer needs to be demonstrated since the rate of use of the “check energy” is more than 83%, one of the best utilization rates among all public aid. However, each year, a certain number of beneficiaries are unable to use this aid on the grounds that they live in co-ownership and that their energy consumption is included in the rental charges and therefore paid directly to their landlord. If since 2021 people residing in establishments accommodation for dependent elderly people (EHPAD), in an accommodation establishment for the elderly (EHPA), in an independent residence and in a long-term care establishment and unit (ESLD and USLD) can use the "energy check" to pay the part linked to energy consumption in their fee, this possibility is not open to tenants of private housing, unlike those of social housing. Indeed, since May 2024, article 231 of the finance law for 2024 authorizes social tenants to pay their energy charges to their landlord by means of an “energy check”. Precarious households who do not benefit from social housing and whose energy costs are included in the rental charges thus suffer a social injustice that must be corrected. This is why he asks him what measures the Government intends to take to allow these households eligible for “energy vouchers” to be able to use them with their private landlord when energy expenses are included in rental charges.

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