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Minimum incomes and benefits, Marine Tondelier

Minimum income for under-25s: Autonomy guarantee open from 18 to young people who are fiscally independent

Direction of change: creation of a scheme, compared with current law.

The lever. Minimum income open to 18-25-year-olds, currently excluded from the RSA (minimum income) save for exceptions: creation, conditions, or support schemes. Direction rule: ↑ higher minimum or open to more young people.

« Étendre la protection sociale aux jeunes adultes par l’extension de la garantie d’autonomie dès 18 ans pour toutes les personnes indépendantes fiscalement »1

Translation by the editorsExtend social protection to young adults by extending the autonomy guarantee from age 18 to all fiscally independent persons

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Autonomy guarantee (50% of the net SMIC) open from age 18 to young people who are fiscally independent: neither this amount nor this group matches the options (an income of €461 for all 18-24-year-olds), and no static costing has been read.

Current law, sources and limits of the cost schedule

Current law. No general minimum social benefit before 25: the RSA (minimum income) is open to 18-24-year-olds only for single parents or young people with a sufficient period of work. The youth commitment contract (contrat d'engagement jeune) opens entitlement to an allowance of at most €566.17 per month for an adult who is independent for tax purposes or attached to a non-taxable household (€339.70 if each income share of the household falls in the first bracket of the scale; €226.48 for a minor), compared with €651.69 for the RSA of a single person (service-public, April 2026).

Horizon. Full year, €bn per year, at 2018 legislation and prices

Limits. IPP simulations from 2018 of a « revenu de base » [“basic income”] merging the RSA and the in-work benefit, paid automatically (100% take-up), with a minimum of €461 per month, lower than the current RSA of €651.69. Low: 34% non-take-up applied (DREES), i.e. about 7.8. High: uprating in proportion to the RSA since 2018, i.e. about 14 (calculations by the editors, without microsimulation). The IPP points out that detaching young people from their parents' tax household partly reduces the cost (lower family quotient), already counted. The programmes' « garanties d'autonomie » [“autonomy guarantees”] (at the poverty line, or at 50% of the net SMIC, for young people detached from the parental tax household) have no equivalent in the cost schedule: the options simulate an income of €461 for all 18-24 year-olds. No static costing of these schemes has been read.

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. Pour une prospérité écologique, programme des Écologistes, p. 126. Open the document at this page.

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