Energy check 2025: Here is when you receive it, have patience

The late promulgation of the finance law for 2025 has shifted the date of payment of the energy check to the most modest households by several months.

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Traditionally, the energy check, included Between 48 and 277 euros To help nearly six million modest households to pay their electricity and gas bills, is sent in April. The public authorities had recently indicated that this would not be the case this year, due to the late promulgation of the finance law for 2025, which occurred in mid-February because of the censorship of the Barnier government. The date of dispatch of the 2025 energy check was specified this Friday, March 28: it will intervene in november. “Shipments will continue in the following months for people who will declare themselves on the platform” From the website dedicated to the energy check, specifies the government.

Indeed, the finance law for 2025 has modified the terms of allocation of the energy check, which are now based on the delivery point number (PDL) of housing electricity and on the income from the tax household in the holder of the electricity supply contract. To allow automatic attribution of the energy check “To as many people as possible”a List of beneficiaries is being established by crossing the information held by the Directorate General of Public Finance (DGFIP), data from public electricity distribution network managers (GRD) and those of electricity suppliers. Households that are not identified by this list can be known via the dedicated website.

Back to a payment of the energy check in April the following years

Given the seven -month shift in the payment of the energy check, this year, the Minister of Industry Marc Ferracci asked the energy suppliers to “Show flexibility with regard to potentially eligible customers, in particular those previously beneficiaries of the energy check”. Thus, in the event ofunpaid, Suppliers will have to maintain the protections associated with the energy check, reducing the power of the installation rather than cutting electricity or gas. The objective is to return to a payment of the energy check in april The following years said the government.

Note that the energy checks sent in 2025 will be valid until March 31, 2027, not until March 31, 2026, since they will be sent later than usual. In addition, the income criteria do not change in 2025. The reference tax income (RFR) will have to be less than 11,000 euros for a single person, at 16,500 euros for a couple, at 19,500 euros with a child and 23,100 euros for a couple with two children.