ABS financing mobilized this year more than 5

More than a year after having sent to the Government the first signals of distress on their financial situation, the departments are still in a State of alert. "If nothing is done by the end of the year, 25 of them will be unable to assume the tasks their" assure on the Assembly of the departments of France (ADF). A sort of bankruptcy in which none of the Presidents of General Council meeting until Thursday in Avignon, for their 80econgrès, not resolves. For departmental representatives of right and left, only a revision of the mode of financing of three large allocations of solidarity, the APA (personalized autonomy allowance), RSA (revenue of active solidarity) and the PCH (compensation for disability benefit), to avoid this fatal outcome.

Expenses incurred by General advice to honour these social skills have exploded and are more manageable. ABS financing mobilized this year more than 5.6 billion eurosthree times more than at its inception in 2002. At the same time, the compensation received by these communities a than doubled reaching only 1.5 billion of the cost of this service. And while the rate of coverage of the PCH and the RSA them will also descending, money returned more harm into the coffers of the departments. After the transfer rights air hole due to the real estate crisis, the abolition of the tax is seen as an amputation. "Our fiscal autonomy rate fell from 30 to 10 ", ton a left by otherwise concerned elected for the freezing of the financial allocations of the State in the Finance Bill.

How to enable departments to surface ADF offers to pass the APA, the PCH and the RSA of their budget to a budget Appendix in which the State compensation will be held in a few provisions closely (co-payments), to match the expenditure. The ADF, which drafted a Bill to that effect, considered that these three allocations of national solidarity. An idea on which agree elected officials all sensitivities and Gérard Larcher, President of the Senate, is also acquired.

Differences on methods

If, in its principles, defended by Claudy Lebreton, the President of the ADF, text is the virtually unanimous, is the case in the detail of its provisions or in the method chosen to advance. The Presidents of 58 departments left initiated the process of referral to the Constitutional Council, believing that they can no longer manage their communities. This approach is not to the taste of their homogues of right. In addition, the proposed law "creates a load of 4.3 billion for the State budget." "We are going all right to budget estoppel", estimated in the ranks of the UMP. Departmental members defend other theses, recently brought to François Fillon. To the weld to 2012 with the future statute of autonomy, promised by the Prime Minister, they propose including redeploying a portion of the funds of the national security and autonomy (CNSA) to improve the financing of the APA and the PCH. Another solution is to finance the dependence of the elderly on a new day of leave.