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Minimum incomes and benefits, Marine Le Pen

RSA (minimum income), amount and conditions: Solidarity benefits reserved for foreigners who have worked five years

Direction of change: decrease, compared with current law.

The lever. Revenu de solidarité active (RSA, minimum income): amount, eligibility conditions, and hours of activity or support required of recipients. Direction rule: ↑ higher amount or relaxed conditions.

« Réserver le bénéfice des prestations de solidarités aux étrangers ayant au moins 5 ans ETP travaillés en France »1

Translation by the editorsReserve entitlement to solidarity benefits for foreigners with at least 5 years FTE worked in France

Rassemblement national, contre-budget 2026 (base PLF 2026), conférence de presse du 23 octobre 2025, 23 October 2025. Position taken from a document of the candidate’s party or movement, not from a presidential programme.

No programme released. Positions taken from public statements, words of associates or documents of the candidate’s party, each dated and sourced; last recorded on 18 October 2026.

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No cost-schedule parameter for this position: see the costing for the reason.

Costing

Announced by the candidate

+€6.1bn

per year, saving. €6.1bn in savings (RN 2026 counter-budget, all « prestations de solidarités » [“solidarity benefits”] combined)

Published costings

none

No external costing of this position recorded to date.

Our calculation

not costed

The RSA is only one of the « prestations de solidarités » [“solidarity benefits”] targeted, whose list is not given (the RN's programme for the 2024 legislative elections, p. 6, targets « les prestations sociales non-contributives comme le RSA » [“non-contributory social benefits such as the RSA”]), and no public source says how many foreign recipients have less than five years of work in France: nothing to cost. Upper limit, not counted: if none of them had five years of work, the gain would be the share of RSA households whose head is a foreign national, about 17.6% at 30 June 2022 (of which 15.6% from outside the European Union, ministerial answer to written question No. 5157, Cnaf and MSA data), applied to the €12.2bn of RSA, i.e. €2.1bn. The €6.1bn of the 2026 counter-budget applies to all these benefits; the counter-budget of 6 October 2026 enters €12.2bn in 2031 for « prestations de solidarité après 5 ans de travail » [“solidarity benefits after 5 years of work”] (according to the analysis by the Institut de l'Entreprise); the 15 billion in the first year then 29 billion in a full year announced by the candidate on 6 October 2026 apply to her whole immigration policy and the « priorité nationale » (national priority).

Current law, sources and limits of the cost schedule

Current law. Flat-rate amount of €651.69 per month for a single person with no resources since 1 April 2026 (+0.8%). Open from age 25, and from 18 to 24 for single parents or young people with a certain period of work. Automatic registration with France Travail and commitment contract since 1 January 2025 (Act No. 2023-1196). Spending: €12,218m in 2023, including the Christmas bonus (Drees), and €12.2bn paid by the Caf (family allowance funds) in 2025; 1.84 million recipient households at end-2024 (Drees), 1.89 million in June 2026.

Horizon. Full year, €bn per year

Limits. Option versement-automatique-rsa: same costing as the recours-total-rsa option of the versement-automatique lever (DREES, Dossiers no. 92: €750m of RSA (minimum income) not paid per quarter in 2018, i.e. €3bn per year, 2018 euros, not updated), for a position filed under the RSA; the two overlap entirely (declared overlap). Option limite-trois-ans (calculation by the editors, 18 October 2026): RSA spending (€12.2bn paid by the Caf (family allowance funds) in 2025) × share of beneficiaries (recipients and spouses) present for at least three years, which DREES does not publish as such: at least 37% (five years or more, end of 2023: lower bound, €4.5bn), at most 59% (two years or more: upper bound, €7.2bn), about 52% by spreading the two-to-five-year band (22%) evenly: central value, €6.3bn. The share of beneficiaries is taken as the share of spending. Static: neither shifts to other benefits (accommodation, social assistance, other minimum benefits) nor returns to work are counted; an exemption (people unfit for work, on a social support pathway, or who fulfil a requirement in return) reduces the saving in an unmeasured proportion. The former coefficient (€0.13bn per % increase in the flat-rate amount, i.e. 1% of 2022 spending) is withdrawn: the allowance is differential, and raising the flat-rate amount by €X adds €X to each household whatever its resources. The 1.89 million households × €6.52 (1% of the flat-rate amount for a single person) × 12 months alone give €0.15bn per %, before the family scale and new entrants. The exact cost requires the distribution of households according to the family scale (DREES, CNAF) or a microsimulation (OpenFisca), not available here. The flat-rate amount of the in-work benefit (prime d'activité) is a separate parameter. Non-take-up (34%) reduces the actual cost. Coefficient used: the State set at €1.40bn per year, from September 2018, the cost borne by the départements due to the exceptional increases in the flat-rate amount from 2013 to 2017 (five decrees, about +10% in total excluding inflation), i.e. €0.14bn per point, in 2018 euros. This figure relates to the RSA alone (the in-work benefit is another lever) and includes households that entered thanks to the raising of the threshold. Updated to the 2026 flat-rate amount (€651.69 against €550.93 in 2018, i.e. +18%): 0.14 × 651.69 / 550.93 ≈ €0.17bn per point, central value and upper bound since 18 October 2026 (calculation by the editors, in 2026 euros); lower bound, €0.15bn, the mechanical effect alone on households already receiving the allowance (1.89 million × €6.52 × 12 months, DREES and 2026 order), before the family scale. The entry of new households opened up by a large increase in the flat-rate amount is included only within the limit of the 2013 to 2017 increases (about 10%): beyond that, it is not costed, and a position that goes further is partial. Full take-up (versement-automatique lever) would increase this cost. External benchmarks, not counted, for an income guarantee at the poverty line, a broader scope than an increase in the flat-rate amount: €36bn according to iFRAP (April 2022, threshold of €1,063, of which €9.5bn for young people); about €25bn according to La France insoumise (2021 amendments); €30bn in its counter-budget of November 2017.

How to read these amounts. These are static costs and revenues, with no feedback effect, over a full year: nothing on growth, employment or the revenue that economic activity would gain or lose. A higher net cost does not on its own make a worse policy, nor net savings a better one: each programme rests on an economic model (demand-led stimulus, lower compulsory levies, consolidation of the public accounts…) that the cost schedule does not settle. GDP itself measures a volume of activity, not well-being or the usefulness of what is produced. Economic models and feedback effects.

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  1. Rassemblement national, contre-budget 2026 (base PLF 2026), conférence de presse du 23 octobre 2025, 23 October 2025, p. 7. Position taken from a document of the candidate’s party or movement, not from a presidential programme. Read the source (Rassemblement national, contre-budget 2026 (base PLF 2026), conférence de presse du 23 octobre 2025).

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