Question 8540 — people with disabilities

Summary

The fight against poverty suffered by people whose disability prohibits or severely restricts their ability to work constitutes a strong axis of the government's roadmap. Thus, in accordance with the presidential commitment, the allowance for disabled adults (AAH) is subject to an exceptional revaluation in two stages, which brings its amount to €860 from November 2018 then to €900 next November, i.e. increase of 11% and the equivalent of a 13th month for beneficiaries. This measure represents a social investment of more than 2 billion euros over the five-year period. However, it should be remembered that the AAH constitutes a social minimum, governed by the principle of subsidiarity. Non-contributory social assistance benefits, social minima are the manifestation of national solidarity towards the most deprived. They always match a resource condition: if the beneficiary has personal resources or if he can count on the financial support of other members of his household, priority must be given to the prior mobilization of these resources. It is for this reason that the spouse's resources are taken into account in the calculation of the AAH. This general rule, as well as the stabilization of the resource ceiling for couples at a higher level at the poverty threshold, does not prevent many couple recipients from benefiting from the revaluation. In particular, two AAH beneficiaries as a couple will benefit fully from the exceptional revaluation. Regarding the merger of additional resources to the AAH, which is currently subject to the examination of parliamentarians as part of the discussion of the finance bill for 2019, it is not proposed that it enter in force on January 1, but at the end of the exceptional revaluation. By maintaining the additional resources, the government is acting consistently with the common thread of its action: the simplification of access to rights. This measure makes it possible to eliminate the double assessment which was necessary to obtain the increase for independent living. This is, in accordance with the conclusions of the interministerial committee of disability of October 25, to stop “over-evaluating” people and asking them to constantly prove their disability, by reducing them to their inabilities, their shortcomings or their impediments. These measures result in an increase of 550 million euros in the 2019 budget, an increase of more than 5% compared to 2018. These figures clearly reflect the priority given to disability and the construction of a society that fully room for everyone.

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