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Before the Court of Auditors, in Paris, April 8, 2025.

The Court of Auditors likes to make its contribution to debates that really feel sulfur. In a report revealed Monday, May 26, the High Court devotes a chapter to “The pension fraud paid abroad”. To fight the phenomenon, actions have been taken, with outcomes on the finish, and it’s advisable to proceed on this course, write the magistrates of rue Cambon, in Paris. The figures they supply appear to place into perspective the monetary magnitude of the issue, with out minimizing it – quite the opposite.

At the tip of 2022, 1.1 million ladies and men residing exterior France acquired a pension from the National Viabling Insurance Fund (CNAV)-or 7.2 % of beneficiaries affiliated with this scheme. For its half, Agirc-Arrco, the complementary system of personal workers, allotted a retirement to some 853,000 people domiciled overseas. The companies granted by these two regimes amounted to five.9 billion euros, or 2.7 % of the sums they’d allotted to their associates. It is in Algeria, Portugal and Spain that the biggest quantities are distributed – as much as 1.3 billion euros, 1.1 billion euros and 700 million euros respectively.

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