The organization’s management, which will be responsible for collecting Agirc-Arrco social contributions, ensures that this operation has no risk, contrary to what the social partners have supported for more than a year and a half.
by Bertrand bissuel
The time of the response rang for “the national Urssaf-Caisse”. Thursday, November 17, its leaders held a press conference in order to respond, point by point, to “disinformation” and “fantasies”. For more than a year and a half, the organization responsible for collecting social contributions has been entangled in a controversy linked to the fact that the State entrusted it to the perception of resources intended for the additional pension plan of the private Agirc-Arrco. An extension of its role which is carried out under conditions criticized by unions, employers and oppositions, right and left.
For the past ten years, the URSSAF network has been given the levy of contributions that fall into the wallet of multiple institutions: unemployment insurance, professional training and learning operators, etc. In technocratic language, we speak of “unification of social recovery”. The goal is to “simplify the life of businesses”, “reduce management costs” but also increase the performance of the puncture. With its battalions of controllers and its procedures sharpened by decades of collection, URSSAF prevails to be an effective collector, which optimizes the backtracks: the gain would be, for example, “150 million euros” per year for the compensation system for job seekers piloted by Unédic.
Under the first five -year term of Emmanuel Macron, this centralization movement continued. It was thus decided to transfer to URSSAF the recovery of Agirc-Arrco contributions, hitherto provided by private social protection groups. Some 87 billion euros for pensions of more than 13 million people.
“Persistence of serious difficulties”
The award of witness had to intervene in early 2022, after being acted in the social security financing law for 2020. The text had been adopted at a time when the power in place wanted to build a universal pension system, in which all the existing boxes have merge. A perspective source of anxieties among the social partners: being the managers of the Agirc-Arrco, they were afraid that the State will delude them from their post and make, in passing, the low hand on the copious financial reserves of the regime (approximately 60 billion euros).
The universal system project was finally abandoned but the fears, they have not disappeared. In early 2021, unions and employers asked the executive to postpone the transfer. In support of their request, they notably argued, in substance, that the intervention of the URSSAF would risk harming the calculation of the rights of the insured – this complex operation being until then in the hands of the protection groups social placed under the banner of Agirc-Arrco. The government finally agreed to shift by a year, that is to say 1 er January 2023, the transmission of the relay.
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