A report published on Thursday, January 13 highlights a “failure of accompaniment” of this solidarity income that has 2.1 million recipients.
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On January 6, in the opening of the Federation of the Federation of Solidarity Actors, Emmanuel Macron relaunched an idea launched at the beginning of the quinquennate. “We must fight against the rooting of poverty,” said the head of state, proposing “to set up a new social assistance system more just and easier”. The creation of a universal activity (RUA), merging active solidarity income (RSA), activity bonus and personalized housing assistance (APL) – which has been the subject of moults working groups, reports and Reflections – therefore appares in the form of proposal for the following five-year fifth: “We could go out of the hundreds of people of poverty,” Macron pleaded, who is not yet officially candidate for his re-election.
A report from the Court of Auditors, published on Thursday, January 13, is the point on the effectiveness of the RSA, which it criticizes severely on its social support and assistance component to the return to employment.
Created in December 2008 in replacing the minimum integration income, the RSA is now, the main instrument for the fight against poverty, for an annual cost of the State of 15 billion euros (figure 2019, integrating activity bonus and accompanying expenditures) for the benefit of some 2.1 million recipients.
600,000 households left out
The magistrates of the Court of Auditors first note that the targeted audience is insufficiently reached, since the “non-recourse” – the number of eligible persons who do not perceive it, deliberately or lack of information – would concern “30% of the target population”, which leaves more than 600,000 side households.
Other criticism, the RSA does not allow out of the state of poverty. Thus, 65% of the beneficiaries – including many single women with children, foreigners, young people under 25 and residents of the city’s priority neighborhoods – live below the monetary poverty line, set at 60% of income. French median, or 1 102 euros per month, for a single person, while the RSA ceifies at 559.74 euros (numbers 2019).
One-third (30%) of the beneficiaries of the RSA deplores frequent bank discoveries, compared to 15% in general population; 30% are restricted to buy meat, against 7%; 43% have difficulty heating, compared with 20%. But the RSA still warns to fall into high poverty, below 40% of the median income (735 euros per month), concedes the Court of Auditors.
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