THE QUESTION.
“
The last time we touched vital cards - I know it, I was Minister of Health, you realize, it will be more than fifteen years - it was to put the photo. And here, what I want to initiate is, from the summer of 2022, the biometric vital card system so that there is no longer any fraud,
”Xavier Bertrand proposed this Monday evening during the debate organized for the primary of LR. A proposal also made by Michel Barnier and Éric Ciotti, as by other candidates outside the primary, like Marine Le Pen or Nicolas Dupont-Aignan.
This idea of a biometric vital card comes up regularly, particularly since the magistrate Charles Prats threw a stone in the pond in his book
The
Cartel of Frauds
.
Denouncing a "
state scandal
", Charles Prats had set fire to the powder in December 2018, affirming that 14 billion euros of social benefits (out of a total of 450 billion benefits) would be paid each year unduly to persons born abroad with a Social Security number obtained fraudulently.
A figure that he has even revised upwards since, to at least 50 billion euros.
Read also Charles Prats: "There are millions of zombies in the social security files!"
“
Impossible!
»The administrations replied.
Faced with the controversy, Edouard Philippe then Prime Minister had commissioned two parliamentarians, the LREM deputy Carole Grandjean and the centrist senator Nathalie Goulet who investigated but considered "
not to have had the means to quantify because the administrations closed the doors to us
".
Then, the National Assembly in turn convened a commission, which made 55 recommendations, in particular better control over registration and more cross-checking of information between the various social organizations.
Read alsoA parliamentary report presents 55 recommendations to stem social fraud
In this tense context, Senators Philippe Mouiller, Bruno Retailleau, Alain Milon and several of their colleagues had tabled on May 21, 2019 a bill to replace, within one year, a biometric Vitale card for the Vitale card. current to ensure that the small green rectangle is neither a fake nor loaned to a third party.
This was rejected by the LREM majority.
While this idea is relaunched with the presidential campaign, the question arises: would a biometric vital card make it possible to fight against social fraud?
CHECKS
.
Widely deployed for passports, the biometric tool
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