Ultimately, it will be no. This Monday, Olivier Capitanio, no doubt unsurprisingly, showered the hope that long nourished the one who was until last June president (PCF) of the departmental council of Val-de-Marne. On several occasions, Christian Favier had wished to see the recentralization of the active solidarity income (RSA) experienced in the department, so that the payment of the allowance is ensured directly by the State and no longer by the community. And this, in view of the weight that the transfer of this competence weighs on the finances of the department.
His successor announced on the sidelines of the meeting that the departmental majority of the right and the center that he has been leading for six months “will not be part of this device”. The opposition had demanded it again at a previous departmental assembly.
At the end of this, “the State would be transferred the financing of the RSA and the administrative examination of applications and allocation decisions,” explains Olivier Capitanio. However, in application of the principle of financial neutrality, the compensation paid to the State by the Department would be 272.8 million euros ”. The mechanism thus put in place would prove to be “very penalizing for departmental finances”, he points out.
Use other levers to promote a return to work
According to him, “the device would only be of interest to the department if the economic situation deteriorated, if the amount of RSA allocation continued to increase. It is difficult to bet on such a deterioration when we want to have an active policy of returning RSA recipients to employment. “For this, the president of the department indicates wanting” to mobilize levers never used until now “in the department,” such as the establishment of reciprocal commitment contracts “.
For all these reasons, the Val-de-Marne is doing like other departments of the metropolis of Greater Paris, which opposed an end of inadmissibility to the promoters of the device. Today, Seine-Saint-Denis remains the only metropolitan department to commit from 2022 on a test of “renationalization” of the financing of the RSA. A decision taken at the request of the departmental council of Seine-Saint-Denis, plagued by financial difficulties faced with the influx of RSA beneficiaries.
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