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Véronique Devise: "for several years we have seen a certain pauperization of the elderly"

2021-11-17T23:39:30.139Z


INTERVIEW - The new president of Secours Catholique is sounding the alarm. The association, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, is publishing its annual report on the state of poverty in France on Thursday.


As every year, Secours Catholique publishes its report on the state of poverty in France based on two data sources: the information collected by the 67,300 volunteers of the association created 75 years ago from the 777,000 people who joined returned in 2020 to its centers;

and an additional survey of households who had recourse to emergency food aid during the 1st containment.

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What emerges is a highlighting of the existing precariousness but no wave of “new poverties”.

The crisis worsened the precariousness of the people we met, whether they were close to the poverty line or without financial resources.

For the association, the safety nets distributed by the State during the crisis were able to freeze the situation of precarious people but medium and long-term effects are to be feared.

Véronique Devise, its new president, takes stock of the situation.

Read also The 2021 report of the Secours Catholique on the state of poverty in France, in video

LE FIGARO.- During his address to the nation on November 9, Emmanuel Macron

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Source: lefigaro

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