The Family Allowance Funds report a 13% increase in fraud in 2022, reaching a new record

Fraud on allowances paid by the Family Allowance Funds has reached the “record amount” of 351.4 million euros in 2022, up 13.5% compared to 2021, announced on Monday June 5, the National Family Allowance Fund (Cnaf). Figures that the Cnaf explains by “better targeted checks”.

Indeed, the Cnaf has 700 controllers and 30 new controllers from the National Service for the Fight against Fraud at Stakes (SNLFE), recruited since 2021 to check this system. “largely based on the declarations of the beneficiaries”, she adds. Thus, 32.4 million checks were carried out in 2022, leading in particular to the detection of “48,692 cases of individual fraud”specifies the Cnaf, which has paid a total of nearly 99 billion euros in aid to 13.6 million recipients.

The average damage amounts to 7,217 euros, according to the National Family Allowance Fund. The latter also confirms that it is indeed fraudsters acting knowingly, and not errors made by the recipients.

In detail, the Active Solidarity Income (RSA) concentrates 60% of fraud. Next come the activity bonus (13%), housing aid (12%) and the disabled adult allowance (3%). The controls made it possible to correct rights for an amount of 1.36 billion euros: 985 million euros overpaid by the Cafs and which they recover, without the fraudulent nature being established. Conversely, the Caf returned 378 million euros to benefit recipients.