Family allowance detections in family allowances increased by 20 % in 2024 compared to the previous year, to represent 450 million euros, announced the director of the National Family Allowance Fund (CNAF), Nicolas Grivel, In La Tribune on Sunday May 4.
This 20 % increase compared to the previous year, “Who was already record”,, “Does not mean that beneficiaries fraud more than before, but that we have improved our control capacity”specifies the director, evoking more than “30 million checks” carried out in 2024.
Mr. Grivel highlights the “700 very effective controllers in each CAF” as well as creation three years ago,“A specific national fight against challenges with 40 investigators with various profiles”citing the examples of bankers, gendarmes, analysts, customs, etc.
“80 % of the sums” are recovered, he adds, while estimated social fraud “Do not exceed 3 % of the amounts paid by CAF” whose benefits amount, each year, to “About 100 billion”.
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“Traditional fraud is individual” with “A beneficiary who obscures certain information to obtain a higher service, who does not declare all of his resources or who does not mention that he is in a relationship”he explains. It can also concern a “Fraud at the residence” : While to benefit from services, you have to live in the territory for at least nine months a year, some do not say that they are abroad, he explains.
The director of the CNAF nevertheless observes “A ramp -up of organized fraud”through “Networks that go far beyond individuals” and whose “Benefits can be the first victims” (identity theft, “European microentrepreneurs who declare work that does not exist”paid advice on social networks to obtain aid, etc.).
In case of fraud, the person must make money with a penalty of 10 % and, in the most serious cases, the sanction is criminal, insists Mr. Grivel.