On Monday, May 30, the French government social benefit plan against fraudis based on greater control of pensions paid to persons abroad who have already died but have not been so declared. beneficiaries They will have to go to the French consulates or to local banks to verify their identity and prove they are still alive.
fraud in France
This was discovered because an experiment was conducted with 1000 retirees. French Social Security who allegedly lived in Algeria for about 100 years, and it turned out that corresponded to 300 scams. Then, France pays over one million pensions to people residing abroad, half in other European countries and the remaining 300,000 in Algeria. Another reason to fight fraud abroad is family or housing allowances and other social benefits People who “supposedly” live in France (being the condition of getting them) but that’s actually in other countries.
The Finance Minister explained that there would be a requirement to justify this. reside for at least nine months It’s one year in France, as opposed to the six or eight years it’s now said to collect these subsidies and aids for. Regarding foreigners living in an irregular situation in France, Attal recalled this because of their status. have no right to charge No social assistance. For this reason, it will ask for the files of SGK to be compared with the files of SGK. Ministry of Interior the person’s residence permit expires or is withdrawn due to public order, stop taking that they can take advantage of. According to the evaluations of the Court of Accounts, fraud in social benefits in this country Between 6,000 and 8,000 million euros per year.