This device was in the program of the President as early as 2018. The fear of the associations was that this reform is the pretext for savings, by trimming in particular on housing aids.
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The universal activity of activity returns to the news. The candidate Emmanuel Macron gives indeed a result of the idea of President Macron to merge several social benefits and minimum. He had mentioned it on January 6, at the Federation of the Federation of Solidarity Actors, then on February 2, during the day on the housing organized by the Foundation Abbé Pierre, and Richard Ferrand, President of the Assembly National (the Republic On March), confirms, Tuesday, March 15, in a tweet: “an automatic payment of social benefits will be implemented in the event of the second term of Emmanuel Macron.”
By September 13, 2018, on the occasion of the presentation of its strategy to combat poverty, the head of state had declared several hundred elected representatives, members of associations and officials gathered in the prestigious framework From the Museum of the Man: “I want to launch today a profound transformation of our social minima system.” He criticized “an opaque system that erodes confidence and nourishes the distrust and speech throbbing on profiteers, the assisted … I wish to create on the basis of a collective work, by law, in 2020, a universal income of activity that merges as many benefits as possible and whose state would be entirely responsible “.
Harmonize without merging
However, the ambitious reform, however, could not be completed because of the irruption, in the spring of 2020, of COVID-19 and because its implementation is more difficult than expected. “There have been many long meetings, thematic working groups, regional workshops, remembers Patrick Dourtreligne, president of the interfederal national union of private non-health and social organizations. We have been consulted much but little listened. “The fear of associations was that this reform is the pretext for savings, by trimming in particular on housing aids.
Fabrice Lenglart, appointed in January 2019 General rapporteur to this reform, led the more technical work with the twelve ministries and twenty-four administrations concerned, including the Family Allowance Fund, distributor, each year, of the 91 billion euros of social aids. “With ten social minima and fifteen social benefits, our system can contain poverty and high poverty, but it is illegible and sometimes little incentive to the recovery of an activity,” says Lenglart, which, after the interruption of Work in the spring of 2020, because of the pandemic, took over. He therefore submitted to the Prime Minister, in December 2021, a prefiguration report remained confidential, which hardly reassures the associations concerned.
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