The government intends to carry out its fight against social fraud on all fronts. Even beyond national borders. Invited on the set of BFMTV-RMC this Tuesday morning to present his plan, Gabriel Attal spoke about the situation of French retirees living abroad and whose number is around 1.2 million people.
“More than half of them are in countries of the European Union with which we have an automatic exchange of civil status, indicated the Minister of Action and Public Accounts. When a person dies, we are informed immediately and rights can be suspended pension. There is almost no risk in these countries.”
A phenomenon measured in Algiers
On the other hand, gray areas arise for retirees residing in non-EU countries, outside the European Union. In fact, France does not benefit from automatic civil status exchanges with some of these countries, which may encourage fraud.
This field of action against social fraud does not appear out of nowhere. Last September, two agents from the national old-age insurance fund were sent to the French consulate in Algiers. There they summoned 1,000 retirees almost centenarians or traveled to meet them if those interested could not do so.
The objective was to verify if these retirees were still entitled to their retirement pension. “In 30% of the cases, that is to say around 300 files, there was non-compliance”, said Gabriel Attal.
Source: BFM TV
