2023-05-29 22:45:12
The Minister Delegate for Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, unveiled, in an interview at Parisian published Monday, May 29 in the evening, a plan to fight against social fraud.
“This is a ten-year project for which I have set a first stage: in 2027, we will have twice as many results as in 2022”he says, promising the creation of a thousand additional jobs during this five-year period and an investment of one billion euros in information systems “especially to better cross-check the data”.
Adjustments have already increased by 35% over the past five years.
These announcements come three weeks after a first plan, featured in an interview with Mondefocused on the fight against tax evasion.
Fraud to social benefits alone is estimated at between 6 billion and 8 billion euros per year, according to the Court of Auditors. “Social fraud, like tax evasion, is a form of hidden tax on working French people”declared Mr. Attal to the Parisian.
Pensioners living outside European borders
The Minister explains that he wants ” to strenghten “ the conditions of residence in France “to benefit from social allowances”. It will now be necessary to spend nine months of the year in the country, against six currently planned, to benefit from family allowances or the minimum old age. Similarly, for personalized housing allowances (APL), which only require eight months of presence for the time being.
Gabriel Attal also intends to increase the resources of Urssaf to limit fraud on employers’ contributions.
Another announcement, with potentially concrete repercussions on the French: the government is considering a merger between the Vitale card and the identity card in order to fight against fraud in health benefits. “We can imagine a model where from a certain date, when you redo your identity card, it automatically becomes your Vitale card”, says the Minister. He adds that a prefiguration mission would be launched by the summer and could reach conclusions by the end of the year. By the way, the idea of a biometric Vitale card seems abandoned, especially given its cost.
Bercy also wants to target retirees living outside European borders in order to better identify those who have died but continue to receive benefits. This announcement follows an experiment carried out since September in Algeria, during which 300 pensioner files “almost centenarians” out of 1,000 files studied were declared non-compliant, says the Minister, recalling that more than a million pensions were paid abroad, half of them outside Europe.
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