Family allocation detections in family allowances increased by 20% in 2024 compared to the previous year, to represent 450 million euros, announced the director of the Nicolas Grivel of the National Family Assignment Fund (CNAF), in the gallery on Sunday.
This 20 % increase compared to the previous year, “which was already registered”, “does not mean that beneficiaries fraud more than before, but that we have improved our control capacity”, specifies that the director evokes more “30 million checks” carried out in 2024.
The “80 % of the sums” recover, add, while the estimated social fraud “does not exceed 3 % of the amounts paid by CAF” whose services amount to “around 100 billion” every year.
Increased “organized fraud”
“Traditional fraud is individual” with “a beneficiary that darkens certain information to obtain a higher service, which does not declare all its resources or does not mention that it is in a relationship,” he explains. You can also worry about “fraud in residence”: although to benefit from services, you must live in the territory for at least nine months a year, some do not say they are abroad, he explains.
However, the director of the CNAF observes “an increase in organized fraud”, through “networks that go far beyond individuals” and whose “beneficiaries can be the first victims”: (identity theft, “European microentrumers who declare work that do not exist”, paid advice on social networks to obtain help, etc.)
In case of fraud, the person must earn money with a fine of 10 % and in the most serious cases, the sanction is criminal, insists on Nicolas Grivel.
Source: BFM TV
