Bruno Le Maire wants the “middle classes” to benefit from targeted fuel aid – BFM Business

The government announced on Thursday that the aid targeted at people who take their car to work would take over in October from the general discount of 18 cents on the price of a liter of fuel, which will gradually decrease and then finally end. in December. The Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire wants “the middle classes” to benefit from targeted aid on fuel which will replace the tariff shield on energy prices next year, and the French who are eligible for it will be notified by text message, he said in an interview with LCI on Sunday. “It is important to help the middle classes who work, who make the nation go round, to put it simply, and who no other choice but to take their car to go to work”, pleaded the minister on the sidelines of the Economic Meetings of Aix-en-Provence. “I will be very attentive to the fact that these middle classes who sometimes stick out their tongues because the fuel has increases, that everything increases, they can also continue to work: they make the strength of the nation, they make companies, factories, administrations run, “detailed the minister.” It’s a real good political debate “” A woman who is alone with two children, who receives 3000 euros in income per month, she has an income which is substantial: for me, she must be entitled to this aid”, he said by way of example. “A couple who have two children and each of whom earns 1800 euros, or 3600 euros with two children, is already a level of income which is significant but not very high, it is the middle class: for me, this family- there must be entitled to this indemnity”, he continued. “I do not want to preempt the debate, me it is the proposal which I make. Afterwards, I am obviously open, at the National Assembly, to discussing this subject with parliamentarians,” he added. “It’s a really good political debate: who are we helping, to what extent? level, for what purpose?” Eligible French people warned by SMS In addition, the Minister of the Economy promised a “simple” device: “on the site of the Directorate General of Public Finances, you register your car (…) and you receive this allowance”, he declared. “We are even going to do something completely new: it is the General Directorate of Public Finances, at my request, which will send text messages, send emails to people who are entitled to this allowance”, he announced. “We are going to take a proactive approach”, he concluded. On Thursday, the government announced that targeted aid for people who take their car to go to work would take over in October from the general discount of 18 cents on the price of a liter of fuel, which will decrease prog ressively then go out definitively in December.