If you are affiliated with the Alsace-Moselle local health insurance scheme, your contributions will drop from April 2022. The rate will drop from 1.5% to 1.3% which represents a financial effort of 64 million euros per year. Since beneficiaries contribute at the same rates, the higher your salary (or your retirement pension), the greater the reduction in contributions.
5 euros less per month for an average salary
For example, for a minimum wage, this reduction will be of the order of three euros per month, 5 euros for an average salary, and 16 euros for a salary of 8,000 euros. Existing exemptions are maintained for those who receive unemployment benefit or for apprentices’ salaries.
Four more years of benefits for young people
The board of directors of the local regime also decided that young people dependent on their parents will be able to benefit from its benefits for four more years, up to 24 years instead of 20 currently. Concretely, a student who lives in Paris or elsewhere and who has a parent affiliated to the local regime, will be able to claim it. This represents 33,500 additional young people. Here again, this novelty will come into force next spring.
Money also for prevention
Last part: prevention. 2.3 million euros per year will be allocated to prevention campaigns on diseases that particularly affect Alsatians and Mosellans such as cardiovascular diseases, cancers but also mental health and occupational health.
Ethically, it is not the point to make reservations
So why such announcements now? Ten years after the last drop in contributions? Well, because the local regime did “an in-depth study of their financial situation“and it emerged that he had accumulated a large reserve,” a war chest “some even said: 75% of annual benefits, namely 385 million euros. “Ethically, it is not the point to make reservations“explained Patrick Heidmann, the president of the local fund.
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