Social fraud is turning into higher and higher recognized however the sums positioned beneath cowl nonetheless show troublesome to recuperate. This is what emerges from a notice launched on Tuesday January 13 by the High Council for the Financing of Social Protection. The physique chaired by Dominique Libault insists on the necessity to strengthen prevention – a dimension that it considers insufficiently taken under consideration within the invoice at present being examined in Parliament and supposed to sort out the issue.
On this query, which is each delicate and troublesome to objectivize, the High Council gives new figures. The quantities which haven’t been deliberately paid to our solidarity system are actually estimated at 14 billion euros, or one billion extra in comparison with the earlier evaluation carried out in 2024. The calculation considerations all branches of “Secu”, together with that accountable for the household, which distributes advantages on behalf of the State and the departments (RSA, and so on.). Also included within the evaluation are the operator France Travail, which compensates job seekers, and Urssaf, one among whose missions is to gather contributions.
The undeniable fact that this “refresh” leads to an upward revision doesn’t modify “substantially the overall fraud rate”in line with the examine unveiled Tuesday. In different phrases, we should always not deduce that the phenomenon would improve, specifically as a result of it’s being studied over a barely wider area than earlier than. In addition, inflation and the rise in assist granted additionally had the impact of accelerating the shortfall.
“Mainly” attributable to companies
The hurt stays ” mostly “ attributable to firms which keep away from paying contributions as a consequence of “Secu” by hiding their exercise or that of their workers: these practices are on the origin of 52% of the estimated fraud. The stability (48%, subsequently) corresponds to deception on companies which is dedicated both by insured individuals (36%) or by well being professionals (12%).
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