En cas de changement de situation, les prestations versées par la branche Famille s’ajustent à la situation des allocataires par le biais de dispositifs multiples. Agissant comme un filet de sécurité, le système se caractérise par une forte réactivité en cas de perte d’emploi et d’absence de revenu. Ces dispositifs demeurent cependant complexes et hétérogènes selon les situations et les prestations. Ils nuisent à la lisibilité du système et sont source d’instabilité des droits. Enfin, en l’absence de récupération automatique des informations, les retards de déclaration des allocataires engendrent des trop-perçus et des versements différés et exposent les Caf à une charge de gestion élevée.
The redistributive effects of the Prime d’activité and the impact of non-take-up.
The Prime d’activité, which came into effect on 1st January 2016, consists in combining the activity component of the RSA scheme and the Prime pour l’emploi (a tax credit for low-income households). This new scheme aims to pursue the objectives of return-to-work incentivisation from the previous schemes while intensifying redistribution towards workers with low income. However, the risk of non-take-up of the scheme, and therefore a reduction in its effectiveness, is far from negligible. In this context, this article proposes an ex ante analysis of the redistributive effects of the Prime d’activité,
testing various scenarios against the level of take-up and the profile of recipients. The results demonstrate that this scheme is increasingly targeted at people on low income, where the take-up rate is significant. In the case where people formerly receiving RSA switch to the Prime d’activité (automatic take-up hypothesis), the redistributive effects of the scheme appear not to be very sensitive to the profile of new people taking up the scheme.
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