At the end of May 2023, the government unveiled its plan to fight social fraud. The National Family Allowance Fund estimates fraud in all allowances at 2.8 billion, “it’s as much as the Foreign Affairs budget”, recalled Gabriel Attal, Minister of Public Accounts, to Parisian.

To remedy this, the government has put in place a series of measures, one of which came into force on July 1, 2023. From now on, several social aids are no longer automatically paid into certain bank accounts.

“From July 1, there will no longer be any payment of social benefits to foreign bank accounts outside the European Union,” the Minister of Public Accounts announced in May. The payment of benefits is now subject to a condition of residence on French territory. In other words, aid will only be credited to accounts located in the SEPA zone: i.e. in the European Union, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Monaco, San Marino, Andorra or in the Vatican.

Gabriel Attal also added a “residence condition to benefit from social allowances in France”. To receive the allowances, it will now be necessary to reside nine months in France per year. Previously, “to benefit from family allowances or the minimum old age, you [had to] spend six months of the year in France, eight months to receive the APL and nine months for the RSA and the activity bonus”, recalled the minister. at the Parisian.

Are you affected by the discontinuation of the automatic payment of social benefits? Discover in the slideshow below which aid is concerned from July 1, 2023.