The Haute-Garonne allowance fund (Illustration).

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  • In 2019, the Haute-Garonne family allowance fund carried out 793,062 checks.

  • It detected 21 million euros of overdue but also 7.5 million euros of fraud.

  • With 1,127 fraudulent cases last year, the number of cases detected in the department has tripled since 2012.

They had found a way to receive benefits for disabled adults without having the slightest health concern.

Or rather a serious birth pathology which allowed them to create a file with the departmental houses of disabled people in the south of France, going almost unnoticed.

But these organized gang fraudsters ended up being unmasked by the family allowance funds and the instigator of the scam, arrested by the police at the Toulouse borders, now sleeps in prison.

This is one of the cases for which the CAF de Haute-Garonne turned to the courts.

Of the 1,127 proven cases detected last year, 5% were the subject of criminal proceedings.

“We also had the case of a man who was sentenced to four months in prison.

He had indicated that he was not in a conjugal relationship, which was false.

Over the past three years, he had thus received over 17,300 euros in allowances, whether for housing assistance or RSA, ”explains Christine Viero, head of the anti-fraud service at the Caisse de Haute-Garonne.

Last year, no less than 7.5 million euros of fraud were detected by 0.3% of beneficiaries.

If in 22% of cases, they are the subject of a warning, in 73% they result in financial penalties for free riders.

In 2019, @cafhautegaronne's #control policy made it possible to detect 7.5 million euros of #fraud.

In #HauteGaronne, the fraud detected only concerns 0.3% of beneficiaries.

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- Caf Haute-Garonne (@cafhautegaronne) September 22, 2020

A number of frauds which has tripled since 2012. “It is not because there are more, but because we have improved our tools to detect them, in particular thanks to datamaning which has been enriched by years. in years and makes it possible to cross-reference data and target sources of error, ”explains Jean-Charles Piteau, the director of the fund.

Errors and rights

But if some seek to voluntarily defraud CAF, most of the time they are errors, especially in the declarations of change of situation.

During the 793,062 situation checks carried out by its teams, 21 million were discovered, or 1.1% of the total benefits paid, and 90% are recovered by the organization.

The 4,261 checks carried out at the homes of benefit recipients revealed 8.3 million of these wrongly received sums, up 48.8% compared to 2018.

But the arrival of one of the 16 CAF controllers among benefit recipients can also be positive when they are in good faith.

Thus, in 47% of cases, they made it possible to obtain additional services that the beneficiaries had not requested or were not aware of.

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