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How the crisis amplified social benefit fraud and errors

2021-05-21T03:45:13.561Z


The Court of Auditors warns on the amounts of allowances paid wrongly and consequently refuses to certify part of the accounts of the Social Security. The slate exceeds 10 billion euros.


While the security hole widened in 2020 under the effect of the health crisis, with a historic deficit of 36.2 billion euros (38.7 billion if we add the FSV Solidarity Fund for old age), the Court of Auditors warns of the errors that taint its accounts, in a severe report made public Tuesday. While social security organizations played a major role during the health crisis, by deploying exceptional financial measures for individuals, businesses and hospitals, "

these operational priorities were accompanied by a deterioration in the reliability of the accounts

" , observes the financial magistrates.

Not only are the exceptional measures linked to Covid imperfectly taken into account, but the social security organizations have reduced their internal control systems because of the crisis, even though they already had significant weaknesses.

As a result, the Court considers that it is "

impossible to certify the accounts of the activity

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Source: lefigaro

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