Extension of unpaid supplies of food pensions

From 1 March, all the food pensions set by justice in the context of a divorce will be paid through an unpaid recovery agency.

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This is a step forward to ensure that the payment of alimony is no longer a source of tension each month between ex-spouses and that unpaid bills, whose women raising their children alone are the first victims, are systematically tracked. The Ministry of Justice and Solidarity and Health announced, Monday, February 28, the extension from 1 er March of the intermediation made by the unpaid recovery agency of Food pensions (ARIPA).

So far, this agency could be seized, through the Family Allowance Fund (CAF) or agricultural social mutuality (MSA), by anyone complaining of an unpaid. From now on, the 35,000 divorces with children pronounced each year by justice will be automatically transmitted to the ARIPA. Unless otherwise opposed to the two spouses, the payment of the contribution to the education and maintenance of children will go through this agency.

In case of unpaid, the ARIPA will commit a collection action with the defaulting spouse from the first month of delay. A responsiveness that should limit the risk of being in front of inextricable situations with large debts accumulated after months or even years of unpaid.

Substitution allowance

At the Ministry of Health, it indicates that parents who were victims of unpaid bills react on average only after ten to twelve months, for fear of reinformed a relationship remained stretched despite the separation or to launch again again. in a long procedure before justice. Now, ARIPA will be the first defendant for late payment or payment failure and will take the initiative of a recovery action. What also to discharge the person supposed to receive the alimony of the possible guilt of such a procedure.

The time that the bad payer regularizes his situation, the ARIPA pays a family support allowance of 116 euros per child and per month. A sum to be compared to the average amount of food pensions, from 170 euros per child. This substitution allowance, kind of insurance, is a sometimes vital resource for single-parent families, including 700,000, with one million children, live below the poverty line. Of the approximately 900,000 ongoing pensions, partial or total unpaid payable to 350,000 separate parents, at 85% of mothers.

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