The Active Solidarity Income (RSA) insufficiently benefits the people for whom it is intended, estimates the Court of Auditors, which recommends in a report to simplify the system and improve the support for its beneficiaries.
In 2020, 2.1million beneficiaries received the RSA. However, the rate of non-recourse to this service is too high, estimated Thursday at a press conference Pierre Moscovici, first president of the Court of Auditors. It has remained stable around 30% since 2011.
To improve it, the Court recommends in particular to simplify the payment of the allowance, by improving all the tools, including the remote procedure, the simulations and the automation of the quarterly declaration. The flagship measure of the government’s anti-poverty strategy, the universal activity income, planned to merge several social minima, including the RSA, to create a more efficient system, but the project was stopped.
RSA recipients benefit from clearly insufficient social and professional support, also noted Pierre Moscovici. These shortcomings in support hamper the integration process, he noted, pointing to poor results in terms of employment.
In total, 60% of beneficiaries do not have a valid support contract, according to the Court of Auditors. Seven years after entering the RSA scheme, only 34% of beneficiaries on average have a job.
The Court of Auditors recommends in particular to systematically propose registration in a training or employment path no later than two years after entering the system.
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The RSA allows beneficiaries to avoid falling into great poverty, however welcomed the Court of Auditors. It has also removed inactivity traps 頻, with a monetary incentive to return to work.
The number of RSA beneficiaries has grown almost continuously since its creation. In 10 years, between 2009 and 2019, it increased by 46% (from 1.3 to 1.9million). Public expenditure to finance the RSA reached 15 billion euros in 2019.
According to the Court of Auditors, the increase in the number of beneficiaries has weakened the financing of the system, provided by the departments. Since 2009, a gap has continued to widen between the increase in revenue and that in expenditure remaining the responsibility of the departments, and this, in a very differentiated manner according to the territories, she points out in her report. It considers that the financing of the RSA should be reformed by giving priority to the transfer to the departments of sustainable resources whose dynamics are consistent with that of expenditure.
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