The drop in the budget for integration through economic activity worries the actors of the sector – Liberation

As the government defends its objective of increasing the employment rate, it is a budget cut that may seem counterproductive. A circular addressed Tuesday April 8 to the prefects, that Release Consulted, confirms the magnitude of the reduction which had been announced for the sector of integration by economic activity (IAE) in 2025. With an overall budget of 1.4 billion euros, the drop reached 80 million euros, and puts the actors concerned in alert. Integration companies, temporary integration work companies (ETTI), integration sites or intermediate associations … Sector structures, which focus on activities such as building crafts, market gardening or personal assistance, are 4,600, and accompany nearly 300,000 people each year distant from employment (Long -term job seekers, social minimum recipients, etc.). Socioprofessional support lasts up to two years, with working time for welcomed audiences which can vary from 20 hours to 35 hours per week. It is more or less strengthened depending on the form of the structure and the public welcomed, some people suffering from serious difficulties (addictions, health problems, etc.). All offer training actions and a number of supervisors superior to classical companies, the idea being, thanks to the passage by one of these structures, of « Gain (r) in skills, resumes (re) self -confidence », explains the Ministry of Labor.

However, the budget devoted to this « Original device », Dixit the Court of Auditors In a report published in 2019experienced a decrease of 5.6 % out of 2025 compared to the 2024 budget. « The whole economic model is in danger », warns David Horiot, president of the network representing the integration sites, school site. With a particularly crucial aspect: training. « This is a lever effect for insertion to work, people need to be trained to apply (in classic companies) at the outset of the course », underlines Antoine Laurent, general delegate of the federation of integration companies. However, the drop in the budget spent on training reaches 30 %, since it goes from 100 million euros to 70 million. « We have obligations of result », Recalls Antoine Laurent, because the State fixes the structures of the objectives to the structures. “But if there is no training, it’s more difficult.»»

The Ministry of Labor assumes this Cup, which it puts into perspective in relation to the effort requested as part of the 2025 budget, of the order of 4 billion euros, or 14 % of its overall budget. « I would like to recall the considerable effort that has been made », underlined Minister Astrid Panosyan-Bouvetin front of the Association of Social Information Journalists, April 3. « From 800 million credits for 140,000 places in 2017, we increased to 1.5 billion credits for 150,000 places in 2024. Because the places that have created have been mainly to the integration projects which are intended for people most distant from employment », she said. « I think we can get out of an input logic and improve output logic », She has still developed, the idea being to encourage structures to let more people go to be able to bring new ones.

« I recognize the very important efforts that have been made, Suitable David Horiot. But we have accompanied the State to make this ambition set up. ” He denounces a logic of « stop-and-go », phases of increased credits followed by declines which put the structures in difficulty to consolidate their economic model. « It’s a shame there are no more assigned means, Complete Antoine Laurent, It is a model that works very well and is not very expensive to the State, when billions must be devoted to the 15 hours of compulsory activity of RSA beneficiaries. ” In 2017, a macroeconomic study on the cost of employment deprivation, carried by ATD quarter world and led by Patrick Valentin, founder of Zero -term zero unemployed territories experimentationeven explained that direct (social allowances) and indirect costs (health problems, housing aid, etc.) of the lack of employment weighed on the state budget at least as much as the financing of return to employment. « It is as if we pretended to save on one side by making a hole in the pocket on the other », concludes Patrick Valentin.