Matignon unveils the list of 29 new departments affected by the system

Before the measure is generalized in 2025, the experiment was extended to 47 departments. The system allows “to be better guided towards employment”, according to Gabriel Attal, thanks to 15 to 20 hours of training, internship, integration, in return for his allowance.

Traveling in the Vosges, Gabriel Attal confirmed, Friday March 1, the extension of the Active Solidarity Income (RSA) under conditions in new territories, in addition to the 18 who are already participating in the experiment. The number of departments concerned will increase this year to 47, before its generalization in 2025, confirmed the Prime Minister. Concretely, RSA beneficiaries are invited to complete 15 to 20 hours of training, internship, integration, in return for the allowance.

Franceinfo has obtained the list of new territories concerned: Haute-Savoie, Rhône, Allier, Cantal, Territoire de Belfort, Haute-Saône, Saône-et-Loire, Finistère, Loir-et- Cher, Cher, Eure-et-Loir, Meuse, European Community Alsace, Ardennes, Marne, Pas-de-Calais, Oise, Essonne, Hauts-de-Seine, Val-de-Marne, Manche, Seine-Maritime, Charente-Maritime, Vienne, Alpes-Maritimes, Vaucluse, Sarthe and Guadeloupe. Among the list of departments cited, not all will deploy the RSA system under conditions throughout their territory, because the implementation of the experiment may only concern a basin or an agglomeration within a department .

“France Travail will carry out 1.5 million checks per year”

Gabriel Attal also announced a “acceleration” checks on unemployment insurance beneficiaries. “France Travail currently carries out 500,000 checks per year. We will multiply them by three by the end of the five-year term. In 2027, France Travail will carry out 1.5 million checks per year”, says the head of government. The Prime Minister warned that he was “ready” to take “difficult decisions” For “encourage work” and achieve full employment, while the government is considering a new reform of unemployment insurance.

Accompanied by Ministers Catherine Vautrin (Labour) and Roland Lescure (Industry), he previously went to the France Travail agency (formerly Pôle emploi) in Epinal where he spoke with unemployed people or RSA beneficiaries. now conditioned to hours of activity or training. “We will not give up as long as all those who can return to employment remain unemployed”assured Gabriel Attal, defending the reform of the RSA, which should allow “to be better guided towards employment”. In total, in the 18 departments which experienced this reform, 21,300 RSA beneficiaries integrated these “support route”.

The Prime Minister specified that he would bring together “in mid-March” a government seminar “dedicated to the question of work” especially for “prepare for big decisions” to take in this matter. For three months, the executive has demonstrated its desire to further tighten unemployment insurance rights, after two controversial reforms to this effect in 2019 and 2023.