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What’s Changing in January 2024

Publié le 24 janvier 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

Possible tests in pharmacy for urinary infections; solidarity allowance for elderly people upgraded; new ceilings for maintenance payments; upgraded basic pensions; tightening of the car malus scale; winter balances; sorting at source of bio-waste; payment schedule France Travail... Service-Public.fr provides an update on what's new in january.

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Money - Tax

The minimum wage is increased by 1.13% from 1er January 2024; the new statutory interest rates applicable in the first half of 2024; the housing savings plan (PEL) rate of pay rises to 2.25%; tobacco prices rise in 2024; payment of tax credits; 2024 scale of attachment on remuneration; increase of the residence tax in Île-de-France; end of duplicate savings books. You can also find the 2024 tax brackets and rates infographic to calculate your income tax.

Training - Work

Timing of payments from major pension funds; basic pensions increased by 5.3%; support for employers recruiting alternates for the first year of an apprenticeship contract maintained in 2024; the minimum amount of trainee bonus reassessed; revaluation also of the amounts of days paid under the Time Savings Account (TSA) for the public service; Pôle emploi becomes France Travail; timeline of updates and payments from France Travail; new rules when an employee refuses a proposal for a CDI at the end of a CDD or temporary employment contract; allocation of 5 index points plus for all public officials; new arrangements for the employment of persons with disabilities; employers must declare to social bodies the net social amount of their employees since 1 January 2024; the personal pension ceiling required to be entitled to the minimum contribution has been increased; the employer's contribution to the financing of restaurant vouchers may be exempted up to €7.18 per voucher... Service-Public.fr explains all these measures in detail!

Social-Health

Service-Public.fr details the main measures of the Social Security Financing Act for 2024. Free condoms in pharmacy for young people under 26 years old; reusable sanitary protections reimbursed for those under 26 years old; increase of the ceiling of the Social Security; the schedule of payments of the CAF for the year 2024... Find the new social and health measures.

Accommodation

New support available for large-scale renovations of degraded housing; new resource ceilings to benefit from low-income housing in 2024; 27-year loans under certain conditions to access real estate credit; introduction of bio-waste sorting by communities at source; the developments of MaPrimeRennov in 2024 and the new amounts of the development tax. Find out the latest news about housing.

Education - Family

Starting January 17, 2024, students will be able to register and create their “candidate file” on Parcoursup; launch of a listening and support platform for students; winter sales have started! Find out what's new in school and family.

Transport

The Personal Training Account (PTA) now makes it possible to finance all categories of driving license for a land motor vehicle; driving license now possible from the age of 17; tightening the scale of the car malus; ending the point withdrawal for "small" speeding surpluses; setting up a social leasing offer for electric vehicles to the tune of €100 per month for the most modest households.

Papers/Citizenship

The dates of the 2024 census.

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