2023-06-26 06:30:18
France Travail, replacing Pôle emploi, will have the task, among other things, of ensuring that the recipients of the active solidarity income (RSA) are registered as unemployed and draw up a contract of employment.
In the long term, it would be a question of officially imposing fifteen to twenty hours per week of activity on those who receive the RSA. Some commentators consider that the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister would have shared the roles: to him the harsh version, from the right, à la Sarkozy (“rights and duties”), to her the more human version, from the left (“ accompaniment and integration”).
For almost thirty-five years (Law on the minimum integration income, December 1988), the principle of the minimum income in France has consisted in guaranteeing a person without resources a low-level differential allowance. It is set at half the poverty line for a single person, or 534 euros per month (and not 608 euros as so often peddled, forgetting to deduct the housing allowance).
Social and professional support
It is a question of allowing him to survive, far from the “adequate means of existence” provided for by the Constitution! Nor has it ever been clearly explained why the RSA is set at 60% of the allowance for disabled adults (AAH) or the solidarity allowance for the elderly (ASPA or minimum old age), other social minima.
In return for this allowance, an activity commitment (employment, voluntary work, training, business creation, care) is signed by the person depending on their situation (because they are not always physically or mentally able to take on a job). This commitment requires social and professional support. This is at least what the texts in force for thirty-five years indicate, except that the sums devoted to it have gone from 20% of the amount of the allowances in the 1990s to 7% today.
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The RSA put forward by Nicolas Sarkozy was intended, like the reform announced by Emmanuel Macron, to “put people to work”, an authoritarian discourse intended to siphon off votes on the right. But it was a fiasco, apart from the strengthening of the involvement of Pôle emploi. In reality, the implementation of the RSA has led to major losses in the effectiveness of support.
The incentive for a resumption of activity already existed, it would have been enough to improve it. The RSA activity was a mistake: the beneficiaries did not or little asked for it, fearing the stigmatization of the social minimum maintained by the ideologues of the hard right, like Laurent Wauquiez. It has also been replaced more effectively by the activity bonus, which many specialists in the matter have been calling for for a long time.
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