The departments directed by the precise and the middle refuse to use the rise of 1.7 % scheduled for April 1 | EUROtoday

The departments led by the precise and the middle introduced, Wednesday, March 26, that they won’t apply the 1.7 % enhance in lively solidarity revenue (RSA) scheduled for 1^er April, in an effort to protest towards state choices not compensated financially.

“The departments of the group” Right, middle and impartial ” [DCI] undertake not to pay the increase in the RSA to the Family Allowance Fund (CAF) provided for at 1^er april “they write in a press launch after a piece seminar.

Departmental executives additionally refuse to pay “Any new or additional expenditure decided unilaterally by the government and not fully offset”believing that the French social mannequin “At a price” and that “Everyone must understand that their cost cannot be assumed only by departments”.

This resolution, which issues 72 of the 104 departments and communities at departmental jurisdiction of France, comes a number of days earlier than a committee of funders which should carry collectively the actors of solidarity round Catherine Vautrin, Minister of Labor and Solidarity.

A tense monetary context

In mid-November, the DCI group’s departments had already threatened to droop the fee of the RSA to 1^er January, however had given up on it after the guarantees made by the previous Prime Minister, Michel Barnier, to considerably scale back the hassle of financial savings that was requested for them.

The departments, confronted with an explosion of their social bills and a fall of their income from actual property, after years of embellish, stay standing towards the punctures supplied for within the 2025 funds when their state of affairs is important for not less than a 3rd of them. They additionally consider “Nearly a billion euros” further bills to return in 2025.

In a word referring to the funds of the communities printed on Wednesday, the Renaissance deputy of Gers Jean-René Cazeneuve, confirms that the departments “Know a period of great difficulty linked to the fall in transfer rights [DMTO] and an increase in their social expenses ”.

In 2024, the DMTOs recorded according to him “A brand new drop of -13.2 %” with “In excessive instances, corresponding to Haute-Marne and Seine-Saint-Denis, a drop that exceeds -20 % and even -30 % for Haute-Vienne and Allier”.

The revaluation of the RSA at 1^er April takes into account inflation. According to the National Family Allowance Fund, the number of RSA beneficiaries reached nearly 1.83 million households in the last quarter of 2024, or 3.6 million people.