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France renews €100 'grands rouleurs' fuel payment with wider income cap
€100 fuel payment for October–December 2026; automatic from 16 October for prior recipients, new claims online from 27 October, income cap raised to €22,770 per share.
By Taxxa AI OyPublished 16 October 2026
Workers who drive long distances for their jobs get a renewed €100 fuel payment for October, November and December 2026Service Public, confirmed by décret n° 2026-959 of 15 October 2026
Service Public. The payment targets households that use a vehicle for professional purposes, including commuting, to cushion the fuel-price rise. People who already received the allowance for the April-to-September period do nothing: the new €100 payment reaches them automatically from 16 October.
Service Public Anyone applying for the first time files an online form in their espace finances publiques on impots.gouv.fr from 27 October
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Eligibility turns on residence, activity, the vehicle, mileage and income. Claimants are tax-resident in FranceService Public, aged at least 16 on 31 December 2024
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Legifrance. The vehicle is a two-, three- or four-wheeled motor vehicle with a thermal or non-rechargeable hybrid engine
Legifrance, regularly insured on the application date
Legifrance, and not classed as a damaged vehicle within the meaning of articles L. 327-1 to L. 327-6 of the code de la route
Legifrance. Excluded from the scheme are heavy motor quadricycles, electric or hydrogen vehicles, farm vehicles, heavy goods vehicles, and service or company vehicles covered by specific employer support
Service Public; one vehicle can only ever trigger one payment.
On mileage, the claimant drives more than 15 kilometres per home-to-work trip or more than 8,000 kilometres a year in professional activity, commuting includedLegifrance. On income, the reference tax income per share of the tax household for 2024 must be no more than €22,770
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Service Public. Taxpayers liable for impôt sur la fortune immobilière for 2024 are not eligible
Legifrance. The renewed scheme also extends monthly net-pay access bands for October to December: single people up to €2,050, childless couples up to €4,070, couples with one child up to €5,087 and couples with two children up to €6,100, always on condition of driving to work
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Recipients keep the documents proving eligibility for five years from the payment dateLegifrance and produce them within one month if the direction générale des finances publiques asks
Legifrance. Sums wrongly received are recovered
Legifrance, with the surcharges of article L. 115-1 of the code des relations entre le public et l'administration where they rest on inaccurate information.
Legal basis: décret n° 2026-959 du 15 octobre 2026 relatif à la création, aux conditions et aux modalités de versement d'une indemnité carburant.
Check eligibility with the tax administration simulator, then — if the April–September allowance was already received, do nothing and await the automatic payment, otherwise file an online claim in the espace finances publiques from 27 October.