Question 4310 — social policy

Summary

Mr. Jérôme Legavre questions the Prime Minister on the situation and future of public structures responsible in particular for helping the integration of RSA recipients (local missions, municipal social action centers). Prime Minister Jean Castex announced in September 2021 the “renationalization of RSA financing” in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis. Since then, 34 other departments have joined this process. It is about of a 5-year experiment: the sums “released” by the departments on the payment of the RSA, are planned to “strengthen the support policies for RSA recipients”, particularly with a triple objective: doubling the number of RSA referents, better supporting recipients, removing all “peripheral obstacles” to the path to employment (administrative procedures, housing, childcare, transport). He is logical to think that public money which, at department level, is no longer used to pay social benefits, will be usefully released, for example, to recruit more public agents to meet needs, examine files in greater depth, etc. But there is no trace of development of public services in the department/State agreement: nor recruitment of agents in the CCAS, the PIE; nor recruitment of public daycare staff; neither development of public collective transport or construction of public HLM housing. There is therefore nothing that is actively geared towards the development of public structures capable of responding to the most pressing needs of the population, the most vulnerable within it. The department of Seine-Saint-Denis, according to the conditions of the agreement signed with the State, affirms that the money released must “be used to do more and to do differently”. Thus, in the name of the new “Local Integration Agencies”, the 34 existing structures, reporting to communities and the public service, should give way to a mass of “partners”, “actors”: associations, social and solidarity economy and businesses. The list of “finalists” of the call for expressions of interest launched by the department (a call for tender) was revealed in October 2022. These are 11 “consortia local actors in employment and integration” (!) made up mainly of associations and companies. Which will receive public subsidies for their operation, or even a 10% bonus (depending on the exit rate of beneficiaries of the system), in place of the work hitherto carried out by public agents. The staff are more than worried. They denounce a risk of privatization of these services. Already in Seine-Saint-Denis, a pilot department in mainland France, staff with their union organizations are warning of the threat weighing on 200 positions in this department alone, obviously to the detriment of the very vulnerable population of beneficiaries. The MP asks the Prime Minister to provide all precise information on the content of the agreement between the State and the signatory departments of these “renationalization of the RSA” agreements and that the legitimate expectations of territorial agents are responded favorably.

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