20% increase in family allowance fraud detections in 2024
By The New Obs with AFP
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People wait in front of the Family Allowance Fund in Le Mans, Sarthe, on December 3, 2024. ADIL BENAYACHE/SIPA
Detections of family allowance fraud increased by 20% in 2024 compared to the previous year, representing 450 million euros, announced the director of the National Family Allowance Fund (CNAF) Nicolas Grivel, to "La Tribune dimanche" .
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This 20% increase compared to the previous year, "which was already a record" , "does not mean that beneficiaries are committing fraud more than before, but that we have improved our control capacity" , specifies the director, referring to more than "30 million controls" carried out in 2024.
"80% of the sums" are recovered, he adds, while the estimated social fraud "does not exceed 3% of the amounts paid by the Caf" whose benefits amount each year to "around 100 billion" .
“A rise in organized fraud”"Traditional fraud is individual" with "a beneficiary who conceals certain information to obtain a higher benefit, who does not declare all of their resources or who does not mention that they are in a relationship," he explains.
It can also involve "residency fraud" : while to receive benefits, you have to live in the country for at least nine months a year, some people do not say they are abroad, he explains.
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