US EditionFamily Allowances: Government Plans to Raise Age to 18
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In search of savings, the Lecornu government plans to change the age at which family allowances paid from the second child will be raised, an aid which allows, depending on the household's income, to receive between 19 and 75 euros each month.
This measure, if voted, would be applied from March 2026 and would save the state around EUR 200 million in 2026.
In search of savings, the government could change the age at which family allowances are raised, prompting reactions and questions about support for families.
The Social Security Budget 2026, presented on Tuesday 14 October by the government of Sébastien Lecornu, plans to gradually shift the age of increase in family allowances from 14 to 18 years. Here is what we need to know about this measure.
New cut in family policy: from March 2025, the increase in family allowances will no longer be paid from the age of 14 but at the age of 18. A measure supposed to bring back 200 million euros, which the associations denounce as a further decline in support for families.
The Minister of Health, Families, Autonomy and Persons with Disabilities, Stéphanie Rist, at the end of the Council of Ministers at the Palais de l'Elysée, in Paris, on 14 October 2025. JULIEN MUGUET FOR "THE WORLD" In search of savings, the government plans to increase the age of revalorisation of family allowances paid from the second child from 14 to 18 years of age, learned Agence France-Presse (AFP), Friday 17 October, at the Ministry of He…
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