This will apply to the ASPA (solidarity allowance for the elderly), family benefits or even the RSA.
The Minister of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal announced Thursday that non-pension allowances can no longer be paid from 2024 to non-European bank accounts, with the aim of combating fraud. “The issue of fraud in social benefits paid to people who do not reside in our territory regularly feeds a number of studies, articles, and rightly scandalizes our fellow citizens”launched the minister before the National Assembly.
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From 2024, “no more non-retirement social allowances can be paid into a non-French or non-European account” (outside the SEPA zone), he said, presenting a government amendment to this effect to the Social Security draft budget (PLFSS). This will apply in particular to the ASPA (solidarity allowance for the elderly), family benefits, the RSA or the supplementary disability allowance. Another government amendment provides for the imposition of management fees on fraudsters, whether this concerns social security contributions or benefits, in order to “to rely on them rather than on employees and companies to finance the operations of detection and recovery of these frauds”.
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The executive shows its firmness
Gabriel Attal intends to address through this draft budget “a message of firmness towards all fraudsters, whether it is contribution fraud or benefit fraud”. Because “To defraud is to steal, quite simply”. In this regard, the text provides for combating, in particular, “abuse” work stoppages by supervising teleconsultation. Only sick leave prescribed by the attending physician or by a physician already consulted within the last twelve months will be covered. “The aim here is to regulate only 1% of sick leave; it is not a question of weakening access to care in rural areas, since 80% of the stops prescribed by teleconsultation benefit policyholders in urban areas.underlined Gabriel Attal.