the lucrative business of bogus sick leave

To obtain a false work stoppage, some employees are turning to social networks, where illegal offers are increasingly numerous. Count from 15 to 30 euros for a certificate, signed and stamped by a real doctor according to the announcements, without consultation. The criminals offer to complete the document themselves, then send it by email. The doctors who sign the judgments are sometimes accomplices of the counterfeiters, sometimes victims of identity theft.

5 million euros of damage in 2022

450 Health Insurance investigators will be trained to further detect fraud. Forgeries cost Social Security 5 million euros in 2022, compared to 3.5 million in 2021. “It is important to fight against social protection fraud, wherever it comes from, both on the part of beneficiaries, but also on the part of companies, since this business fraud is considered by the High Council funding of social protection to more than 10 billion euros per year”judge Nathalie Coutinet, economist at the University of Sorbonne Paris Nord.