After the fight against tax evasion – the government’s plan was presented a few weeks ago – Gabriel Attal, the Minister of Public Accounts, now faces social fraud.
In 2022, 1,600 million euros were restated. The declared objective is now to reach 3,000 million euros at the end of the five-year period. As? Multiplying controls… and resources. 1,000 civil servant positions will be created and 1,000 million euros will be committed to the information systems of social security funds.
Reinforcement of bonus conditions
The objective is above all to multiply the crosses, for example between Fisc and Ursaff. In detail, Gabriel Attal wants to target various sectors. First, the RSA fraud, which represents more than a billion euros a year. Starting in 2025, applications will be pre-populated to better simplify and control access to rights. More generally, allowances will no longer be paid to accounts outside of the European Union as of July 1.
Now it will be necessary to spend nine months a year in the country, against the six currently planned, to benefit from family allowances or minimum old age, Gabriel Attal also indicated to the Parisian. The same happens with the APL, which at the moment only require eight months of presence.
Control of retirees abroad
Another announcement: the merger of the vital card and the identity card with a chip to more easily identify the person and verify their rights to health insurance. Bercy also wants to target retirees living outside Europe’s borders to better identify those who have died but continue to receive benefits.
Finally, in terms of self-employed fraud, a regularization window will be set up. And in 2027, through withholding at the source, platforms such as Uber or Deliveroo must pay the contributions of their auto-entrepreneurs.
Source: BFM TV
