After the Ehpad scandal, the one about the “residential homes”? HE Sunday newspaper reveals the results of a year-long investigation carried out by the General Directorate of Fraud Repression (DGCCRF) that will be published on Monday. Analyze the services and prices of 256 of these establishments.
As a result, 40% of these “residences” are suspected of “cheating” their residents. The abuses are numerous but the one that arises regularly is the opacity that surrounds the billed services.
71 warnings and 32 injunctions
Many times they do not correspond to reality and to what is announced in the media. For example, residences presented as medicalized when they are not, the presence of certain equipment… However, it happens that these services are well billed to families.
The Repression of Fraud also verified illegal or abusive clauses in the contracts, undue costs, lack of information related to the tax credit for resident tenants, inflated prices…
However, these deficiencies communicated to the establishments in question would have led “in a large majority” to compliance. It must be said that the maximum penalties for “cheating” an individual are large: a fine of 300,000 euros and two years in prison.
The DGCCRF issued 71 warnings, 32 precautionary measures for compliance, and one criminal complaint.
Source: BFM TV
