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Abdelkader (who wished to remain anonymous) and his advisor Emmanuelle Farag, at the Marseille-Blancarde Pôle emploi office, in Marseille, October 10, 2023. FRANCE KEYSER / MYOP POUR “LE MONDE”
Under the white light of the neon lights, Merouane, with a timid look, enters the cramped office of the Bouches-du-Rhône integration center, in the 5th arrondissement of Marseille. The almost 50-year-old man, with hesitant French, is a recipient of active solidarity income (RSA) ” for several years “. Enough to have forgotten the exact number. This Tuesday, October 10, he was warmly welcomed by two advisors, one from Pôle emploi, and the other from the department, for a meeting. « diagnostic ». “You are here because you will benefit from a new type of support which should allow you to exit the RSA more quickly”promises Jérémie Kibongui, the department’s integration advisor.
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Since mid-May, Bouches-du-Rhône has participated, like seventeen other departments, in an experiment with the RSA reform, which registers all beneficiaries with Pôle emploi and conditions the payment of the allowance to around fifteen weekly activity hours. The measure is one of the major points – with the creation, in 2024, of France Travail to replace Pôle emploi, to transform the employment and integration service – of the bill for “full employment » adopted in the National Assembly on Tuesday. In the department chaired by Martine Vassal (Les Républicains), the experiment, which currently concerns 718 beneficiaries, is taking place in the 5th and 7th arrondissements of the Marseille city, located in the city center, less affected by the precariousness that can be ‘be the northern districts. A choice that surprised local players.
“We wonder about the choice of these districts where we find beneficiaries who do not have the greatest difficulties as is the case of those in the northern districts, explains Audrey Garino, departmental opposition councilor and deputy for social affairs at Marseille town hall. We do not find the same transport problems there, for example. » These districts, which list 2,400 RSA beneficiaries out of the 63,000 in the department, “correspond to the employment area desired by the government”, answers Sabine Bernasconi, vice-president of the department responsible for professional integration.
“It’s suitable for people”
After this first quick meeting, RSA beneficiaries are oriented in three possible ways: either professional support towards employment (55% of beneficiaries followed), or a socio-professional continuation (33%), or a so-called social pathway. “remobilization” for those furthest from employment (12%). To reassure Merouane, who receives a couple RSA of 911 euros (607 euros for a single person), the two advisors calmly explain the new path that awaits him. If he does indeed wish to work, as a security guard, preferably at night “to be available during the day to take care of [s]a woman »who has serious health problems, he is rather oriented towards socio-professional support which should in particular enable him to request the status of family caregiver.
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