Experiments Limited as Conditional RSA: 93 Shuts the Door

In his eyes, the words of Emmanuel Macron, during his speech on March 22, on the beneficiaries of the Active Solidarity Income (RSA) were the straw that broke the camel’s back. “These remarks stigmatizing those who never work, who must be made responsible”, comments Stéphane Troussel, president (PS) of Seine-Saint-Denis. However, the department has been working since September on experimenting with the RSA issued on the condition of a weekly activity of 15 to 20 hours. “We try to play the game, by working sincerely to see what is behind this desire to experiment and what more this can bring to our beneficiaries. We are trying to go beyond the caricatural remarks already made by Emmanuel Macron during his presidential campaign, “says …