Monday, in the Senate, during the presentation of the government decontainment plan, the Prime Minister Édouard Philippe announced financial assistance of € 200 for young people under 25 who are precarious or modest. 800,000 will be able to touch it.
A boost of € 200, but for whom specifically?
For 800,000 young people under the age of 25, specifies the State Secretariat for Youth. For students who have lost their job or their internship due to the health crisis, for isolated overseas students who have not been able to return home, for precarious or modest young people receiving housing assistance.
When will this amount be paid?
Beginning of June for some 400,000 students. In mid-June for precarious or modest young people.
How to request it?
According to the Secretary of State for Youth, students will have to submit, during this month of May, a request for help to the Crous (Regional Center for University and School Works) on which they depend.
Non-students, on the other hand, will automatically receive this aid from the government, through family allowance funds. A process already used for the payment of exceptional aid to some four million modest households.
Will this financial boost be paid only once?
Yes. One time only. According to the head of government, “Due to confinement, many young people have lost the jobs they need to feed themselves and pay their rents. Some have found themselves in a dramatic situation ”
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What reactions?
For Antoine Dulin, president of the Youth Integration Committee at the Economic, Social and Environmental Council, this helpis a first step, but it is not enough. “
Thus, this boost does not concern young people on the street, or those housed by a third party, in emergency centers or in their modest family. The sum is also considered to be too small.
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