Bercy is considering merging the Vitale card with the identity card

Towards a single card to limit the risk of fraud? The government is considering a merger between the Vitale card and the identity card, in order to better fight against fraud in health benefits, announced the Minister Delegate for Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, in an interview with the Parisian, Monday, May 29.

“I want to gradually move towards merging the Vitale card and the identity card into a single secure card, as is the case in Belgium, Portugal and Sweden”, defend the minister. “I am launching a prefiguration mission to determine the timetable and the terms. Obviously, this project cannot be considered until the production times for the cards have returned to normal”, he added.

A series of leads unveiled

In this interview, the Minister in charge of Public Accounts reveals other measures of a plan to fight against social fraud, aiming in particular to double the adjustments between 2022 and 2027. The government wishes, for example, to control more pensioners living outside the borders European Unions, in order to prevent situations where benefits are paid when people are dead.

Gabriel Attal also explains that he wants “to strenghten” the conditions of residence in France “to benefit from social allowances”. It will now be necessary to spend nine months of the year in the country – against six currently planned – to benefit from family allowances or the minimum old age. The same goes for the APLs, which only require eight months of presence at this stage.