The departments do not want to pay only the social cost

Strained by the crisis, the departments are tempted to turn against the state. The dispute: With decentralization, the state has transferred powers to districts – including RSA, allocation personalized autonomy (APA) for the elderly and the provision of disability compensation (PCH) – without ensuring adequate resources.

"In the Loire-Atlantique, uncompensated costs, which relate to social benefits but also transfers of personnel or the fire service, amounts since 2002 at least 393 million euros and 521 million at worst. This is high compared to our annual budget of 1.2 billion, "said council President PS Patrick Mareschal. Who said that encryption is derived from a mission conducted by elected right and left.The APA says the bulk of the difference: spending rose from 54 million in 2003 to 77,000,000 in 2009, while funding granted by the state stagnated at 27 million.

Nationally, the Departments of Assembly of France (ADF) has calculated that in 2009 the department had paid 12.4 billion ABS, RSA and PCH but received only 7.8 billion in compensation. So they paid 4.6 billion. In 2010, it will be 5.5 billion. Nothing surprising: between crisis and aging, social spending would increase by 4% to 10% this year, according to the Centre for Social Action decentralized, after rising 6.3% in 2009.

Another day of solidarity

"These are not 5.5 billion debt of the State towards us. Because he never committed to offset all the benefits, "said Bruno Sido, UMP senator Haute-Marne and Secretary General of the ADF.The General Council of Loire-Atlantique does not see things this way and preparing to attack the state. "By summer, we will take the administrative courts, which will raise before the Constitutional Council the question of the constitutionality of funding mechanisms," said Patrick Mareschal. The fact that the Seine-Saint-Denis and the Saone-et-Loire have been condemning the state on a more limited subject, the protection of children, encouraging vocations. And the promise of reform Francois Fillon dependence, and therefore the APA, by the end of the year, did not reassure the elect. The ADF would rather play for now, the map of Parliament. "We will table a proposal loistipulant that the state must provide compensation for permanent and sustainable revenue," says its president PS, Claudy Lebreton.More specifically, the ADF is seeking to recover this year one billion undrawn stagnant social funds. Elected officials have the right, them, another idea: "Let's add another day of solidarity, in addition to the Monday of Pentecost," offers Bruno Sido.

June 19th, 2010 in business, features, publications, technology, world | tags: , , , ,