Right-led departments threaten to suspend RSA payment.

The right-wing and center departments announced, on Thursday, November 14, their intention to suspend the payment of the Active Solidarity Income (RSA) and to stop caring for new unaccompanied minors, if the government does not apply the planned budget cuts. by 2025.

“Since 1^Ahem January [2025]all departments [dirigés par] the right and [le] center will suspend its payments » from the RSA to the family benefit funds and “don’t take[ont] “I no longer take care of the new unaccompanied minors because it is immigration policy.”declared at a press conference Nicolas Lacroix (Les Républicains, LR), president of the group of departments led by the right, the center and the independents within the Départements de France association, meeting at the congress in Angers.

“Until now we haven’t said anything. (…)but child protection is not an immigration policy. Today, unaccompanied minors, let the State manage and care for them.”he added.

Nicolas Lacroix also plans “attack the state” in court every time he makes a decision “which impacts the finances of the departments without their agreement” and asks the Government to suspend the new revaluations planned under Ségur.

“We defend the people we help every day”

At another press conference, the thirty presidents of left-led departments displayed colorful posters explaining the impact of the planned cuts on the lives of French people.

“We are also considering mobilizations in our own departments”declared Jean-Luc Gleyze, president of the group of departments led by the left, who plans to place a large tarp on the building of the Gironde department he presides or demonstrate.

“If today we defend the departmental budget it is above all because we defend the people we help every day”he added, specifying that the budgetary effort had “it’s already done” for departments with a loss of 6 billion euros in transfer taxes in two years.

“Will we have to impact the elderly person and make them pay more than they have to pay in nursing homes? Should we reduce the number of social workers? Should we support sports clubs less? Should we protect children less? Should the price of school meals be increased for high school students? »asked.

The departments are the most concerned stratum of communities

The departments are facing an explosion in their social spending on child protection, assistance to dependent elderly people and people with disabilities, but at the same time they see their income from real estate transactions decrease and register less VAT than expected.

The finance bill for 2025 foresees an effort of 5 billion euros for the communities, but according to the Departments of France, the departments are the most concerned stratum of communities, with 44% of the effort, or 2.2 thousand million euros, despite their economic situation. It is recognized as fragile.

The departments ask the government to revise its copy, abandoning the planned tax on operating income and freezing the dynamics of VAT.