The departments led by the right and the center announced, this Thursday, November 14, their intention to suspend the payment of active solidarity income (RSA) and to stop taking care of new unaccompanied minors (UMA) if the government does not return to the budgetary cuts planned for 2025.
“As of January 1, all departments of the right and center will suspend their payments” of RSA to family allowance funds and “we will no longer take care of new unaccompanied minors,” declared during a briefing press Nicolas Lacroix (LR), president of the group of departments of the right, center and independents (DCI) within the Departments of France association, at a congress in Angers.
In his draft budget, Michel Barnier promised this Thursday evening in an interview with West France “significant adjustments” in favor of communities. The departments, before which he is due to speak on Friday morning in Angers, have called on the government to review its budgetary copy, which they say threatens them with “asphyxiation”.
The Prime Minister assured that he was “not going to recreate” a housing tax, which had been abolished by Emmanuel Macron and whose return is demanded by certain mayors, nor “create new local taxes”, while the Minister of Partnership with the Territories Catherine Vautrin said she was “open to a debate on local taxation”.