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One-off €200 aid in universal employment service vouchers (CESU)

Decree No. 2009-479 of 29 April 2009 grants, from June 2009, an exceptional €200 aid in the form of universal employment service vouchers (CESU) prepaid by the State to people entitled to the personalised autonomy allowance on 1 March 2009, to low-income recipients of the childcare choice supplement and to recipients of the disabled child education allowance for the first three months of 2009. CESU aid can also be paid, on the recommendation of Pôle emploi, to jobseekers with dependent children who return to work or start training, no later than 31 December 2009. The vouchers are valid until 31 January 2010.

Measure originators

InitiatorGVT

Christine Lagarde

Gouvernement

Amount

200 €

Impact on public finances

Costs 300 m € (one-off)2009 estimate · State

Source of the estimate: Projet de loi de finances rectificative pour 2009, AN n° 1494, exposé des motifs (Official figure)

A positive amount is revenue or savings for public finances; a negative amount is a cost or lost revenue.

Effective date

1 June 2009

Measure impact

Dependent elderly people living at home, low-income families using childcare and families of disabled children receive €200 in CESU vouchers to pay for personal services. The amending finance bill of April 2009 puts the cost of the measure at €300 million.