Rare moment of harmony in the National Assembly. It is midnight and a half, Thursday, July 21 and the deputies have just adopted the deconjugalization of the disabled adult allowance (AAH). Of the 577 deputies, 428 were present in the Hemicycle to greet a “historic moment” and the vote of a “measure of justice”. A unanimous vote celebrated with applause.
This deconjugalization had thus been brought six times by the opposition in legislative proposals during the first five-year term of Emmanuel Macron. But they had been systematically rejected by the deputies of the majority who considered this measure unfair, because benefiting without distinction to the modest people as to the most fortunate. The candidate Macron had however promised during the presidential campaign to ” to move ” about this question. In his policy statementthe Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, had taken over this measure. “My government will reform, with you, with the associations, the allowance for disabled adults”before specifying: “We will start from the principle of deconjugalization. »
“Message of Dignity”
By accepting the principle of this provision, integrated into the bill on purchasing power, the presidential majority intended to demonstrate that it could negotiate with the opposition and line up, in part, behind their proposals. ” We had intense, bitter debates, differences, it’s true, but today we can and we want to move towards a collectively co-constructed solution.welcomed the rapporteur of the purchasing power bill, Renaissance MP Charlotte Parmentier-Lecocq.
Advocate of this reform under the first five-year term of Emmanuel Macron, the LR deputy for Lot, Aurélien Pradié, was delighted to “this message of dignity”: “If we are here in this Assembly, it is to defend concepts, a political ideology, but if we are here, it is also to change the lives of our fellow citizens. » “We fight hard during the campaigns, we fight hard in the Assemblies. And then, there are times when we are able to come together to allow deconjugalization ”greeted the president of the National Rally group, Marine Le Pen.
In the amount of 904 euros per month, the AAH aims to enable people with disabilities to obtain “minimum resources” when they are unable to work. However, its amount has so far been calculated according to the number of tax shares in the household, making 270,000 people in couples dependent – out of the 1.2 million who receive the AAH – on the income of their spouse. “A democratic anomaly”had denounced a few minutes before the vote the president of the environmental group, Julien Bayou: “It is a hypocritical measure which aims at autonomy, but because of the threshold and the calculation on the level of the spouse, some people cannot contribute to the household income and must turn to their spouse for all the expenses of daily life. »
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