Inflation: and we are talking about the “food voucher” again

Inflation: the return of food vouchers in France During the year 2022, the French began to feel the effects of inflation. This rose once morest a backdrop of war in Ukraine, the resumption of activity and the rise in the cost of energy. And so it is that in the middle of the year, the government announces it: emergency food aid. It has since taken on several names in official speeches. Food bonus, food check… Except that despite repeated announcements, nothing has been put in place. Confirmed by Olivia Grégoire at the end of June 2022, the food check for the most modest has never seen the light of day. Only payment: exceptional back-to-school aid, paid in September 2022. And this when in reality, it was Emmanuel Macron who announced it, in December 2020, the day following the Citizen Conference on Climate (CCC). The principle of the food bonus was even voted on… in July 2021 by the National Assembly. Bruno Le Maire recycles announcements once morest the backdrop of a “red march” While the French have been waiting for the food bonus for more than two years, Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy, recycles the measure. On March 6, 2023, he confirms ( once more) that there will be a food check “for the most modest”. “I discussed it with the boss of the FNSEA when I was at the Salon de l’Agriculture. We spoke regarding it with the Minister of Agriculture Marc Fesneau and with the Minister in charge of Solidarity Jean-Christophe Combe. There will be good for the most modest, those with the lowest incomes, a food check, ”said the tenant of Bercy. When will the “food voucher” be born? But while the French see the prices of food products explode, + 14.5% over one year according to INSEE in February 2023, the Minister of the Economy does not give any date. He only outlines the announcement of an “experiment” in “the coming months”. Will the food voucher be introduced in 2023? Nothing is less sure. Low-income households, the first beneficiaries of the measure which, we recall, was promised at the end of 2020 will therefore have to wait. Without guarantee of receiving it one day and without knowing the outlines yet.