Published on October 23, 2024 at 5:27 pm / Modified on October 24, 2024 at 5:03 pm
Tuesday afternoon, the NZZ He threw a new paving stone in the troubled pond of the Federal Office for Social Insurance (OFAS) by announcing the departure of its head Stéphane Rossini. An announcement that surprised the Federal Department of the Interior (DFI): most of the office’s employees learned the news from the Zurich newspaper. It is enough to underline the nervous climate that has prevailed at OFAS since August.
It was at that moment that Federal Councilor Elisabeth Baume-Schneider and Stéphane Rossini publicly disclosed the calculation error estimated at that time at 4 billion francs in the financial forecasts of the AVS. An announcement that had the effect of a political bomb during the summer. More seriously, the office was slow to alert its head of department: two months passed between the discovery of the mathematical mistake and the notification to the Minister. This precise point does not succeed, despite the fact that an administrative investigation has been opened.