The General Council of Alpes-Maritimes is strengthening its fight against RSA fraudsters. Since July 2011, a unique system to combat RSA fraud has been implemented by the General Council of Alpes-Maritimes. A quality and anti-fraud service was created to reinforce controls over the receipt of the Active Solidarity Income (RSA) allowance, with the assistance of the Family Allowance Fund.
After an initial phase of filing complaints with the Nice and Grasse prosecutors, the President of the General Council decided to complement this system with new sanctions, notably administrative fines, which the General Council of Alpes-Maritimes will be the first to implement in France.
At the end of the first commission on administrative fines tasked with reviewing the first 14 cases, Mr. Eric Ciotti, Deputy, President of the General Council of Alpes-Maritimes, presented an updated report on these actions at a press conference at the General Council. The aim is to prevent and sanction frauds that are an unacceptable misappropriation of public funds.
Declaration from the communist group at the General Council: Deception and demagoguery
The President of the General Council, Eric CIOTTI, is willing to resort to any means, even the most demagogic ones, to continue exploring a political niche he finds attractive: stigmatizing the underprivileged with communication focused solely on “the fight against RSA fraud,” suggesting that fraud is mainly committed by individual beneficiaries of social benefits when in reality the numbers tell a very different story! It is enough to note that the number of complaints filed represents only 0.004% of the total RSA beneficiaries in our department and that the sums recovered in this context are less than 0.05% of the total amounts distributed.
However, to artificially inflate the meager numbers compared to the initial objectives set by the General Council in establishing an “anti-fraud” brigade, the President does not hesitate to use a sleight of hand that we have denounced in the Assembly before.
Indeed, he does not hesitate to include in the “savings” supposedly achieved against fraud the refusals of rights to many applicants, which actually account for the bulk of the amount indicated at the press conference! And to boast about the number of refusals, all in the name of “social justice!”
While it has never been our intention to trivialize or justify criminal behavior that harms the common good, it is important to remember that its real impact remains marginal in comparison to the total beneficiaries and even more so when compared to other much more significant frauds, particularly tax fraud.
But what wouldn’t the President of the General Council, a staunch supporter of the Tax Shield and other gifts to the wealthiest, do to conceal the social damage of five years of Sarkozysm.
