2023-09-29 13:16:44
The National Assembly validated on Friday a new principle of suspension of RSA rights in the event of a breach, the beneficiary being able to then recover at least part of the lost sum, a more gradual punishment affirms the executive, a “shame” denounces the LEFT.
During the examination of the “full employment” bill, the deputies adopted an article establishing this “suspension-remobilization”, as the presidential camp calls it. If a beneficiary does not draw up a “reciprocal engagement contract” or does not respect part of his obligations, the departmental council – or France Travail if the department delegates this authority to it – may decide to suspend the payment of his RSA.
If the beneficiary complies with his obligations, he could however retroactively recover the lost sums. But he could only recover a maximum of three months of RSA payment, a ceiling added against the advice of the government during the examination of the bill in the Senate, but which it ultimately accepted.
There is already a sanction today “which consists of amputating the RSA of a household”, but in practice “this part is never returned”, affirmed the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt, defending the new system as a more gradual sanction than suspension without retroactive payment or pure and simple removal.
“Toughening of the threat and the sanction”
Far from being convinced, the left lambasted at length an article of “shame” which, by establishing a new type of sanction, would ultimately increase the number. “At the heart of your project, it is not support, it is the toughening of the threat and the sanction,” criticized the communist Pierre Dharréville. “Everything shows that the sanction leads to the street and the exit from the system, it is factual,” insisted the socialist deputy Arthur Delaporte.
For the president of the LFI group, Mathilde Panot, the measure goes against the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, which provides that signatory states must protect the child “against all forms of discrimination or sanctions motivated by the legal situation (or) the activities (…) of his parents”. “There are people who cannot go to a Pôle emploi appointment because they cannot afford the train ticket,” criticized Jocelyn Dessigny (RN).
The article was adopted by 38 votes to 30 with the support of the majority and the LRs. The left and the Liot group voted against. The RN abstained.
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