Interrogations on Macron's proposal on child support

Interrogations on Macron's proposal on child support

VIDEO - The President announced that the Family Allowance Funds (CAF) will have "prerogatives to levy unpaid alimony". A collection agency has already been created in 2017.

This is the response of Emmanuel Macron to the anger and distress of single mothers, under the spotlight during the crisis of yellow vests. Thursday evening, the president announced that family allowance funds (CAF) will have "prerogatives to levy unpaid child support". "We can not rely on single mothers incivility of their former spouses," said the head of state. More broadly, he wanted to "redefine a real ambition" to family policy and find a "dynamic in our birthrate", down in recent years .

The announcement expected of the President of the Republic of a better consideration of unpaid alimony should however be specified. Indeed, several voices are already raised to point out that an agency for recovery of maintenance, the Aripa, has already been created in early 2017.

"Without controversy and without denying that the system can be improved, I do not understand the difference between what has just announced the President and what was put in place in January 2017," pointed out on social networks Senator PS Laurence Rossignol, former Minister of Families and Women's Rights. Today, about 900,000 people wait for monthly support payments to support 1.5 million children. Nearly 40% of the pensions are unpaid, in part or in full, according to Aripa. This tool is judged still inefficient since among the 315,000 parents who do not receive their alimony, only 37,000 have appealed to Aripa. Lack of information, fear of conflict with an ex-spouse or administrative complexity ... Thus,only 12% of unpaid victims would turn to this agency , according to a recent report from the Terra Nova think tank, listed on the left.

Guarantee the payment and no longer fight against payment defaults


To put an end to the headache of escheated alimony, this report written by Daniel Lenoir, the former director general of the National Family Allowances Fund (CNAF), proposed that this agency is now completely in charge of collecting and the payment of support. This is a way of guaranteeing the payment of support payments and no longer of combating defaults. The government will have to specify if this track corresponds to the will of Emmanuel Macron. The association "Abandon of families-zero tolerance", which has been a long-time advocate on this topic, had pleaded with Marlene Schiappa's cabinet for a support agency to be backed by the Treasury. "It's an administration that has all the tools to be effective in this action, especially when the former spouses organize their insolvency or flee abroad, pleads Stephanie Lamy, co-founder of the collective. This would be the strong symbol of a change of mentality on this subject, too often still considered as a simple family problem ".