2023-06-04 07:25:36
This Monday, May 30, the French government drew up a plan against fraud to social benefitswhich is based on greater control of the pensions that pay to people abroad who are already dead, but have not been declared as such. The beneficiaries they will have to go to the French consulates or to local banks to verify their identity and prove that they are still alive.
Frauds in France
This was discovered because an experiment was carried out with 1,000 retirees from the French Social Security who supposedly lived in Algeria with about 100 years and it turned out that 300 corresponded to frauds. Therefore, France pays more than a million pensions to people residing abroad, half in other European countries and the rest 300,000 are in Algeria. Another cause of the fight against fraud abroad is the family or housing allowances and other social subsidies to people who “supposedly” live in France (being the condition to receive them) but that are actually in other countries.
The Minister of Finance announced that a requirement will be to justify that reside for at least nine months a year in France, unlike the six or eight that are said right now to collect these subsidies and aid. In relation to foreigners in an irregular situation living in France, Attal recalled that due to their status they have no right to charge no social allowance. For this reason, he is going to request that the files of the Social Security be crossed with those of the Ministry of Interior in the event that a person’s residence permit expires or is withdrawn for reasons of public order, stop receiving those from which it could be benefiting. According to the evaluations of the Court of Auditors, fraud in social benefits in this country is between 6,000 and 8,000 million of euros per year.
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