The numbers are staggering.
The massive deferrals of social contributions put in place since March have been partly recovered, but businesses and self-employed workers still have at least 15 billion euros in receivables, said the Central Agency of Social Security Organizations (Acoss) on Tuesday.
At the end of November, 70% of French companies accumulated a debt of 10.25 billion euros to the Social Security.
However, the amount is significantly lower than the total contribution deferrals granted to employers since the start of the health crisis: 23 billion, according to the director of Acoss, Yann-Gaël Amghar.
“Prepayments were higher than expected,” he observes, highlighting the gap between the postponements requested during the first containment (7.7 billion in April) and the second (1.7 billion in November).
Decreased activity
To the slate of companies is added that of self-employed workers: at least 5.12 billion for the period from September to November alone.
A minimum amount, to be completed with the amounts due from March to August, estimated in principle at 10.3 billion but which will undoubtedly be revised downwards, due to the drop in activity in spring and summer.
In the end, part of these contributions will probably be lost for the Social Security, but "the estimate has not yet been made because the situation remains very evolving", adds Yann-Gaël Amghar, referring this subject to "the risk of no recovery ”to“ the closing of accounts in March ”.