If you receive social benefits from CAF, you must declare all your income well, including those from sales on platforms between individuals, under penalty of having to reimburse your allowances.
The family allowance fund is useful for many households. By granting various social benefits, it helps the most modest French people, whether they are full families, isolated parents, students, assets or even retirees. But according to a recent case of justice, CAF would also be able to have an eye on the income of its beneficiaries and to take heavy sanctions when certain rules are not respected.
This is especially what happened for a young woman from Nîmes. As Le Parisien reports in early February, the administrative court demanded that it reimburse the sum of 10,000 euros to the CAF. The reason: for two years, she perceived the RSA and the Christmas bonus of the CAF every month without mentioning that she arrived at her ends with sales on vintéd.
However, CAF can be informed of unusual, even suspect banking movements. And she was able to detect important amounts generated by the young woman who seemed not to have been declared. In this specific case, regular transfers from Vinted on the Nîmes account triggered the launch of an internal survey leading to the sanction of 10,000 euros in reimbursement.
The young woman was actually mistaken on one point. She wrongly thought that her sales, less than 3,000 euros per year and limited to less than 20 transactions, had not been declared by the platform. But this limit in fact only concerns the resale platforms which have the obligation to declare the user transactions to the State, not the beneficiaries of social benefits who must declare all of their revenues themselves in their quarterly declarations at CAF, including for those from personal sales.
In view of this case, it is therefore recommended to take the time to properly make your declaration taking into account all your income CAF can turn against you. The court also recalls that even the small sums are affected. So do not neglect the sums obtained by the sale of objects on sites like Vinted or Leboncoin.