RSA beneficiaries threatened with radiation in full confinement?

An RSA request (illustration).

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• The lawyer Juan Branco was indignant, in a tweet very shared since its publication Monday, of a "hunt for the poor" launched by the public authorities, by sharing the formal notice sent by the department of Ardèche to a beneficiary of active solidarity income (RSA).

• According to this letter, the beneficiary has one month to "justify the steps taken" to find a job under penalty of a possible "reduction or [...] suspension" of his RSA.

• The Ardèche department confirms at

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  the authenticity of this document sent during confinement which, despite its "somewhat abrupt" wording, does not aim to remove or lower the allowance, assures the departmental council.

Less than a month after Emmanuel Macron announced an exceptional bonus for recipients of active solidarity income (RSA), the departments in charge of financing this social benefit, paradoxically have they started a "hunt for the poor"? in favor of reconfinement?

This is in any case what the lawyer Juan Branco says on Twitter: "In full confinement, letters are sent to RSA beneficiaries demanding them to find a job at all costs, otherwise they will be struck off.

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The hunt for the poor is on.

In full confinement, threatening letters are sent to RSA beneficiaries demanding them to find a job at all costs, otherwise they will be canceled.

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- Juan Branco ✊ (@anatolium) November 2, 2020

A reality that the lawyer intends to prove by means of a photo of the “formal notice before suspension of the RSA allowance” sent by the department of Ardèche to one of the recipients of the department.

“A reciprocal commitment contract is to be established.

[...] However, this contract or its rider has not been validated.

You were not selected for the Greta training because, it seems, you did not demonstrate any motivation to follow it during the interview ”, we can read in this letter in particular.

And the formal notice to continue: “Consequently, a period of one month from receipt of this letter is granted to you to justify the steps taken.

[...] In the absence of action, and without a response from you before November 21, 2020, a proposal to reduce or suspend your RSA allowance will be submitted to the opinion of the partnership team before being examined by the president of the departmental council ”.  

If the date of the letter, initially dated October 21 before being modified to October 27 by a handwritten modification, is worth accusations of falsification to the lawyer, he defended himself from such a modification by broadcasting, in the stride, the envelope in which the formal notice arrived, the stamp of which is dated October 30, the day of the entry into force of the confinement.

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, Juan Branco indicates having received, since the publication of his tweet, “a wave of comments and a few messages [from RSA beneficiaries] indicating that they were in the same situation.

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The department of Ardèche confirms to us that this formal notice emanates from its services and adds: “The dates on the mail and the envelope are exact.

We believe that the mail was made and then had to wait for the authorized signatory to be present for signature.

Hence the corrected date for sending [in the header].

The decision to write and the drafting of the letter dated October 21st.

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On the other hand, if the department recognizes that other similar messages have been sent since the start of the reconfinement to some of the 7,567 beneficiaries of the RSA in Ardèche, it stresses that, despite their wording "a little abrupt" and lacking "empathy ", These" formal notices are not letters of suppression or reduction of the allowance ".

"The procedure for removing or reducing [the RSA] has never been activated during a period of confinement"

"These are letters to" move "those whose referent feels they can" drop out ", including socially (withdrawal, diseases, etc.)", details the department, while specifying that "the procedure to remove or reduce allocations has never been activated in the previous period [of containment] and is suspended again from the first day of the one that begins.

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This did not prevent Kevin, the recipient of the formal notice relayed by Juan Branco, from showing himself "extremely surprised" upon receipt of this letter, which he took for an abusive announcement of imminent suspension, as he explains it to

 : “During my last interview with my referent, I was told that the RSA could not be suspended or withdrawn until after two refusals to renew the reciprocal employment contract.

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As the Ministry of Solidarity and Health indicates on its website, the suspension of the RSA can only be done after the beneficiary has already been the subject of a reduction in the allowance and or "not in compliance with its obligations".

A formal notice aimed at "taking stock"

In this case, the letter from the department of Ardèche aimed, according to the latter, to "suggest" to Kevin "to" reconfigure "his course to" better meet his expectations ":" The beneficiary had indicated his choice to leave towards the welding trades, he was directed to such training, at his request.

In the end, he revised his wish and indicated that he was no longer motivated by training and welding trades.

The formal notice aims to take stock with him to see what were the obstacles and brakes (personal, environment, type of profession ...) which led him to review his project and be able to support his reorientation.

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If Kevin acknowledges having refused welding training during the interview mentioned in the letter, he nuances: “I was asked if I really wanted to be a welder.

I answered in the negative, for several reasons.

[…] I initially wanted to go to a training course in ironwork, or in forge.

I only agreed to try to be integrated into welding training when it was made clear to me that I could not apply for training in ironwork or blacksmithing, since the region apparently did not offer any more. ... and above all, that eventually, if I did not find a training or a job very quickly, the RSA would be withdrawn.

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"I clarified during the interview that if the people present had a real desire to work in [this field], it was not my case, even if that would not put me off, and that I regretted potentially stealing the another because of the mechanisms described above in force ”, concludes the person concerned, while the government expects an increase of nearly 9% of RSA beneficiaries in 2020 because of the Covid crisis. 19. 

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