Unclaimed social benefits from the Family Allowance Fund (CAF) amount to EUR 10 billion per year. To remedy this non-recourse, the government announces the introduction of a simplified application mechanism, following tests conducted in several departments in 2022, as part of the solidarity at source reform.

A Coordinating Committee for Access to Rights (COCOAD), bringing together local elected representatives, social security funds, but also solidarity associations and administrative officials, has been set up to monitor the progress of this project and more generally to find solutions to the problem of non-recourse.

The scheme should initially cover three forms of aid: the active solidarity income (SSA), the activity premium and the personalized housing aid.

A pre-filled declaration for beneficiaries

In order to simplify the user process, the principle is to introduce a pre-filled form of declaration, as for income tax, which the FAC will send directly to the beneficiary. This system can be based on the data collected by the monthly resource scheme (DRM) which serves as the basis for the calculation of allocations.

The indication of the net amount of the company on the salary statement

To facilitate this pre-filled declaration procedure, a new line should be included on the salary statement, mentioning the net social amount, i.e. the amount used as a reference for calculating social benefits.

Starting in July 2023, the posting of the net social amount will be mandatory on pay slips and starting in January 2024, any employer must be able to report this amount for each employee on the registered social return, as well as taxable net income.