Question 12473 — embassies and consulates

Summary

Mr. Karim Ben Cheikh draws the attention of the Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty, responsible for public accounts, to the conditions under which retirees from the French system, whether French or of foreign nationality, fulfill their obligations to certify that they are still entitled to benefit from their retirement pension. Since 2018, beneficiaries of Pensions from French sources can no longer have the life certificate drawn up in many French consulates even though this is a document required annually by old age insurance organizations. These decisions followed a reduction in consulate missions to compensate for the continued decline in staff numbers over more than 15 years. The deputy specifies that this gradual disappearance of certain missions entrusted until now at consulates has also affected notary services or even telephone and physical reception in consulates. In the absence of a programming law for foreign affairs, the MP considers that it is the responsibility of the ministry in charge of public accounts to budgetally program the resources and staff necessary to provide a worthy public service to French people established outside France. Mr. Deputy asks whether the Ministry of Action and Public Accounts took into account, in the reassessment of the employment ceilings of the “External Action of the State” mission, the need to provide new staff for the allocation of budgetary program 151 concerning the administration of French people abroad and consular affairs so that consulates can once again become places in which the oldest French people can complete the formalities required of them. He is concerned that this question is absent from recent announcements aimed at combating what the Ministry of Public Accounts describes as social fraud; these announcements also appear to him to ignore the realities of fellow citizens and pensioners of French origin established abroad. He wants to know his position on the subject.

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