France to control its retirees living in Morocco

The Agirc-Arrco supplementary pension scheme is taking a tougher stance against the million pensioners residing outside of France. While the majority legitimately receive their rights, the persistence of payments to deceased persons or cases of identity theft is forcing the organization to carry out massive verification. The objective is clear: to clean up the files and stop the financial hemorrhage.

Algeria is a priority area for this deployment. As early as this year, 16% of retirees living in this country will receive a summons via a local banking partner. This control plan aims to audit 400,000 files over a six-year period. The sanction is immediate: failure to appear at the counter to prove one’s existence automatically results in the blocking of transfers.

This offensive also extends to Morocco, Tunisia, and Turkey. Agirc-Arrco is relying on alarming statistics provided by the Court of Auditors: during the experimental phases, a quarter of the checks resulted in the cancellation of a pension, revealing the extent of the abuses. To streamline these checks without systematically imposing a physical displacement, the organization is banking on the deployment of technologies such as facial recognition and the acceleration of data exchanges between international pension funds.