When last November the government announced that it was going to give an “inflation allowance” to 38 million French people, it was made clear that the payment would be automatic and without the need for any action. Except for certain profiles such as self-employed workers or employees of private employers.
Indeed, Urssaf, the public body responsible for paying part of the “inflation compensation” is not aware of their bank details. These workers therefore had to communicate their RIB to the organization, just like employees having no contract of more than a month or at least 20 hours in October with an employer, specifies the government site.
No RIB, no bonus
In total, this represents three million people, records the Urssaf. Except that today the director of Urssaf, Yann-Gaël Amghar, sounds the alarm and ensures that nearly a third of them have not communicated this information. “We lack the bank details of 500,000 independent and 500,000 employees at home,” he says in the columns of the Parisian.
The organization is supposed to pay them this aid by the end of February but cannot do so without this information. However, the director is quite clear: “If the people eligible for the bonus do not provide us with their bank details, they will not receive the 100 euros. The Urssaf ensures that a recovery campaign by email or letters has already been made with home employees and that a second will take place in early January for the self-employed.
