Worker touching more or less a Smic, you have until tomorrow, Thursday, January 31, to make your claim and benefit as early as February of the premium of activity increased. Beyond the 31 January, applications will be taken into account for a payment the month following the request. To find out if it is eligible, it is necessary to make a simulation on the site www.caf.fr and in the case of a positive response to the application on the same site, or from the reception points of the FCA or a House of services to the public. Employees and farmers must make their request to the security sociale agricole (MSA).

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as a reminder, the bonus activity is an income supplement paid each month, subject to resource conditions and depending on the family situation, to employees and self-employed workers over the age of 18, and which affect between 0.5 Smic and 1.5 times the Minimum wage. Student employees and apprentices are eligible from 932 € net salary. This bonus is composed of a base premium as a lump sum, to which is added a bonus additional single variable paid to each member of the household whose income is higher than 0.5 times the Minimum wage. It is this bonus, the promise of Emmanuel Macron to an increase in the Minimum wage of 100 euros, which will be increased to 90 euros and range from 3.8 to 5 million homes. This new version of the premium of activity will be paid, in its new version, the 5th of February.

Since the president of the Republic announced, on 10 December, the widening of the premium of activity in response to the revolt of the “yellow vests”, applications are exploding. On the 1st of January, 436.000 simulations had been carried out, 682.000 the next day, and 1.4 million in three days, according to the Cnaf. “Compared to last year, the premium claims of activity were multiplied by six”, admitted recently in Figaro Christelle Dubos, the secretary of State responsible for poverty. It saves 400.000 simulations per day, and of 73,000 applications have already been processed.”

“the increase in the bonus activity is a short-term solution” – to Look on Figaro Live