The government, which has unveiled a vast plan against social fraud, intends to double the number of adjustments by 2027, with a plan to merge the Vitale card and the identity card, the terms of which are still unclear.
Three weeks after the announcement of a first plan to fight against tax evasion, and at a time when French accounts are being scrutinized by rating agencies, the government wants to display its fight against fraud.
“It is very important to strengthen our means (of fighting) against social fraud”, underlined Tuesday the Minister Delegate for Public Accounts Gabriel Attal, saying he wanted to tackle the phenomenon “without stigmatization, without instrumentalization”, during a visit to the National Family Allowance Fund in Paris.
Among the most salient measures, the government is considering a merger between the Vitale card and the identity card in order to fight against the loans or “rentals” of Vitale cards which allow some to benefit from free care.
A prefiguration mission common to the Ministries of Public Accounts, Health and the Interior will be launched by the beginning of July “in order to work on the technical and legal implementation” of this measure, the latter indicated in a press release. commmon. The conclusions are expected before the end of the year.
This mission will have to say “how and in what time frame it is possible”, specified Mr. Attal, acknowledging the “difficulties” currently encountered by the French to quickly obtain an identity card. He argued that a merger of these cards is already effective, in Belgium in particular.
The proposal stems from a report by the General Inspectorates of Social Affairs (Igas) and Finances (IGF) according to which “a migration of the social security number to identity documents would make it possible to respond to usurpation fraud”, while the use of biometrics for the vital card “would present more difficulties than useful contributions”, in addition to a “prohibitive” cost.
These inspections showed that “the CNIL (National Commission for Computing and Liberties, editor’s note) does not oppose it, that the management of the various ministries does not oppose it, that the representatives of doctors do not not oppose”, insisted Gabriel Attal, wanting to nip in the bud a controversy which had opposed Bercy to Place Beauvau on the feasibility of this merger.
On Tuesday, the CNIL said in a message posted on its website that it was “the least intrusive and least risky solution”, however, considering it necessary to respect certain recommendations such as a readable only social security number. by the tools and actors of the medical and medico-social sphere.
According to Bercy, social fraud is estimated at 8 billion euros in social security contributions “evaded for informal work”, 2.8 billion in social benefits paid by the family allowance funds, 200 million by the pension funds of the regime. general and “between 3 and 7% of certain health insurance expenses”.
Gabriel Attal predicts in 2027 “twice as many results as in 2022”, i.e. a target of three billion euros in adjustments per year. These adjustments have already increased by 35% over the past five years, according to him.
He promises the creation of 1,000 additional jobs during this five-year period and an investment of one billion euros in information systems.
Engaged in an operation to seduce the middle classes, which it intends to reconcile with public services, the government is particularly targeting the files of retirees over the age of 85 living outside European borders in order to better identify those who are deceased but whose relatives continue to receive allowances.
According to Gabriel Attal, more than a million pensions are paid abroad, half of them outside Europe and 300,000 in Algeria.
The minister also wants to “strengthen” the conditions of residence in France “to benefit from social allowances”. It will now be necessary to spend nine months of the year in the country, against six currently, to benefit from family allowances or the minimum old age. The same applies to housing assistance (APL) which today requires only eight months of presence.
Gabriel Attal wishes in particular that the social protection organizations can check the passenger lists of the airline companies and will seize the CNIL.
Regarding employer contributions, he intends to increase the means of Urssaf to limit fraud, through hiring and better cross-checking of data. In addition, the plan provides for the payment at source of the contributions of micro-entrepreneurs by the platforms that make them work, like Uber or Deliveroo.
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05/30/2023 18:31:26 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
