Distribution of the Fonds d'urgence sociale: An Example of a Decentralized Management of Social Aid (original) (raw)

2001

Abstract

800 000 individuals sought aid from the “Social emergency fund” (“FUS”) between mid-January and mid-June 1998. Most often they were people without partners (60%), aged from 30 to 50 years, without a job and living on the “RMI”4 (“minimum insertion wage”) or on an unemployment grant in some independent lodging, but in debt. 72% of those requesting help obtained some financial aid at an average total of FRF 1600, and were sometimes redirected to a second social fund. Statistical analysis shows up a correspondence between the economically precarious administrative “departements” (high rates of unemployment and of “RMI” cases) and those having a high share of individuals seeking “FUS” aid. The disparities between “departements” in terms of individual situations are very marked: even if the beneficiaries from the “RMI” were in general treated more favourably, the relative preference between those requesting and declaring no income source, and those of whom the household disposed of a sal...

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