Members of the group of departments from the right, the center and the independents threatened to no longer pay the RSA from January 1 if the government did not review its text of the 2025 budget. In total, 71 departments are concerned.
A rant that could penalize millions of RSA recipients. Thursday, November 14, the departments belonging to the group of the right, the center and the independents (DCI) at the Assembly of Departments of France, announced that they no longer wanted to pay active solidarity income to beneficiaries from January 1. In question, the budget cuts provided for in the text of the 2025 finance bill.
In total, beneficiaries from 71 departments could simply be threatened with a cessation of payments at the start of next year.
four entire regions affected
In this case, the entire Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur regions (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Hautes-Alpes, Alpes-Maritimes, Bouches-du-Rhône, Var and Vaucluse), Centre-Val -de-Loire (Cher, Eure-et-Loir, Indre, Indre-et-Loir, Loir-et-Cher and Loiret), Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (Ain, Allier, Ardèche, Drôme, Cantal, Isère, Loire, Haute-Loire, Puy-de-Dôme, Rhône, Savoie and Haute-Savoie) and Normandy (Calvados, Eure, Manche, Orne as well as Seine-Maritime) are concerned.
This is also the case for almost all of Burgundy-France-Comté (Côté-d'Or, Doubs, Jura, Nièvre, Saône-et-Loire, Yonne and the Territoire de Belfort), Hauts- of France (Aisne, Nord, Oise and the Somme), of the Grand-Est (Ardennes, Aube, Marne, Haute-Marne, Meuse, Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin), Pays-de-la-Loire (Maine-et-Loire, Mayenne, Sarthe and Vendée) and Île-de-France (Seine-et-Marne, Yvelines, Essonne, Hauts-de-Seine, Val-de -Marne and Val-d'Oise).
A large part of Île-de-France threatened
Two departments of Brittany could be targeted, Finistère and Morbihan. This decision could also affect beneficiaries in Charente-Maritime, Corrèze, Creuse, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Deux-Sèvres and Vienne for residents of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Only Aveyron is potentially concerned for Occitanie.
Finally, for Overseas, it is the beneficiaries living in Reunion, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Mayotte, on the island of Saint-Barthélémy and in the Southern Province of New Caledonia who could found in great difficulty.
The fate of the beneficiaries of these 71 departments is, for the moment, subject to the advancement of the budgetary text for the year 2025. According to Départements de France, the bill provides for savings of around 5 billion euros for communities, including 2.2 billion for the departments.
