Family allowances: explosion in the number of detected fraud … – Le Parisien

June 1, 2015, 2:53 p.m. | Updated: June 1, 2015, 4:23 p.m.

The National Fund for Family Allowances detected more than 32,000 fraud in 2014 , up 56% from 2013.
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The controllers of the National Family Allowances Fund (CNAF) are more effective . In 2014, they detected fraud over 32,000, a figure up 56% compared to 2013, amounting to 209.6 million euros, an increase of 48.21%.

 Only 7% of fraud are false productions or scams. The controllers of family allowance funds (CAF) have also observed last year an increase of qualified fraud “survival”. It is made of very modest people, beneficiaries of means-tested benefits, and, most often, social minima. In ten years, the number of qualified fraud has multiplied by twenty or so.

But between 2013 and 2014, “fraud has not increased, ensures the Fund is continuous improvement detection which explains the rising number of qualified fraud “particularly thanks to checks made with beneficiaries (” data mining “- background searches of particular données–).

Six in ten controls generated a regulation

So, last year, more than six in ten controls have generated a financial regularization of the recipient of the file itself welcomes the Fund. In 2014, 70% of fraud cases were due to omissions or false statements, mainly on resources, business situations, changes of address. Concubinage cover-ups accounted for 20% of cases.

As in previous years, fraud focused on social minima (68.55% of cases) and housing allowances (23.17 % of cases). The average amount of the loss is 6,386 euros, which is low compared to other types of fraud to the public finances. The estimated fraud, meanwhile, remained stable between 2012 and 2013 (about 1 billion).

Each year, the family branch assesses the volume of fraud by building on the results a specific control operation. This amount corresponds to the risk of fraud and not the actually detected fraud. On the ground of this risk, the family branch has detected about two-thirds of these unfair (that is to say, benefits paid to recipients who should not have to touch), and those detected unduly, 141 million have been qualified by the fraudulent Caf in 2013.

Financial penalties range from EUR 680 106-12

Almost all of these frauds was the subject of sanctions if the sanction is the responsibility of the Caf. Thus, 28 501 cases of fraud under management Caf (of 32,828 in total), 28 267 sanctions were imposed, ie a rate of 99.1%. The remaining cases of sanctions is general advice concerned with fraud.

Depending on the size, there may be warnings of financial penalties or criminal prosecution. More than 4,100 criminal cases have been decided in 2014 and may result in fines. The amount of the damage from which the Caf are required to file complaint was doubled in 2015, from 12,600 euros to 25,360 euros.

The financial penalties (13 737 2014) can range from 106 to 12,680 euros. As for the warnings, they were 10 426. A heavier penalty shall be imposed in case of recurrence. CAF has 647 controllers in the 102 family allowance funds.

Le Parisien / Stanislas de Livonnière