The Senate, dominated by the right, approved on Tuesday, despite opposition from the left, a “renovated” regime of sanctions for RSA recipients who fail to meet their obligations, including a new measure called “suspension-remobilization”.
The bill for full employment, examined in first reading by the senators since Monday, sets up a more personalized and directive accompaniment of the recipients of the Active Solidarity Income.
The Senate voted Monday evening the automatic registration of beneficiaries of the RSA on the list of job seekers and the generalization of a contract of employment.
In this logic of rights and duties, the bill makes it easier to implement sanctions for recipients who do not respect their obligations.
Before the ax of radiation, little applied, the payment of the RSA may be temporarily suspended, then resume when the person again respects his commitments, with retroactive regularization.
Senators have limited three months of RSA sums that can be paid retroactively.
As with the two previous articles, the left has tried unsuccessfully to remove this revamped sanctions regime.
The new and increased sanctions will tip some RSA recipients from precariousness to very great precariousness, even poverty, warned socialist Emilienne Poumirol.
The Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt denied having the will to aggravate or accentuate the sanctions, since the government is proposing an intermediate sanction, lower than that which has existed since 1988, that is to say radiation.
The reality is that the RSA is indeed a trap for precariousness, poverty, not by the amount of the allowance (607 euros for a single person, editor’s note), but by the lack of support, he added. .
The rate of return to employment of RSA beneficiaries is 3.9%, which is much lower than the average for job seekers, which is 8.2%, underlined the rapporteur LR Pascale Gruny.