It’s a small line that should not go unnoticed. From July 2023, a new mention will appear on the pay slip of employees: this is the net social amount, i.e. the “net income after deduction of all compulsory social contributions”, indicates the Ministry. work. This corresponds to the resources that employees must declare to assess their rights to certain social benefits, such as the activity bonus or the RSA.
Until now, employees had to calculate this amount themselves, at the risk of making mistakes. This reform “will therefore simplify the procedures for recipients and will also reduce the risk of error (…), undue payments or reminders of benefits, sources of financial insecurity for recipients”, as explained by the government last February.
The “net social amount” is part of the “solidarity at source” project, the government’s strategy to fight against the non-use of social benefits. According to a report published in June 2021 by Secours Catholique, around a third of people eligible for the RSA do not receive it, a rate which peaks at a quarter for those eligible for family allowances.
Taking up the principle of “deduction at source” of income tax, the net social amount will be communicated directly to the Family Allowance Funds (CAF) for each income paid by employers and social organizations, and this, as soon as 2024. “Recipients will therefore be able to go to mesdroitssociaux.fr to consult the total amount of their net social income”, specifies the Ministry of Labor on its website.
In addition to the introduction of the net social amount, the decree published last February provides for other adaptations of the payslip, in particular more readable wordings and harmonization of the display of certain benefits, reimbursements or deductions. Those who are struggling to decipher their payslip will finally have the satisfaction of seeing the document lighten up by a few lines, the Ministry of Labor having promised the deletion of certain superfluous information.
