Overview

• Minister Catherine Vautrin proposes mandatory geolocation and integrated e-billing for medical transporters to verify billed distances.
• The draft law would penalize abusive sick-leave prescriptions and enable recovery of all unduly received sums.
• Social-security funds would gain full access to beneficiaries’ assets and the authority to debit fraudsters’ bank accounts directly.
• Unemployment benefits would be paid only to accounts in France or within the European Union to prevent overseas diversion.
• Illicit earnings would face a 45 percent CSG surcharge and complementary tax-fraud measures are scheduled in a separate bill.