Translation of "régime de revenu familial garanti " (French → English) :

Family Income Security Plan [ An Act to provide for the payment of benefits in respect of Children ]

family income security payment

Child Benefits: Proposal for a Guaranteed Family Supplement Scheme

Supplementary Benefit and Family Income Supplement Scheme

However, analysis of the progress made in the light of the 4 common objectives reveals that: (a) the measures concerned with promoting access to the labour market have, in tandem with the NAP/empl, achieved considerable success; (b) pursuit of the reform of the social protection system has not affected attainment of the goals inherent in the Minimum Guaranteed Income scheme (scheme combining financial benefits with a socio-occupational integration plan); (c) the aim of having all persons in a situation of exclusion sign a "social in ...[+++]tegration contract" within one year was too ambitious and was difficult both to implement and to evaluate, since it requires multisectoral involvement and since the universe of individuals to be covered remains undefined (the same comment applies to the individualised follow-up of children and young persons within three months); (d) the setting up of a national social welfare helpline has made it easier for certain priority groups to obtain information and a rapid response to their problems; (e) the "Urban Social Development Contracts" and the "Rural Areas and Social Development" project, which were aimed at tackling the problems of the regional nature of exclusion, were abandoned for budgetary and policy reasons; (f) as regards mobilising stakeholders in the process, the Interministerial Monitoring Committee, set up expressly to monitor the NAPincl, operated only intermittently and its composition had to be altered following the change of government, hence its impact as an institutional co-ordination forum has been established only gradually; as regards civil society, the vague reference to the Co-operation and Social Solidarity Pact and the project for the creation of an NGOs Forum illustrates the low degree of involvement of these players.

phasing in a guaranteed minimum income scheme and providing universal health care, ensuring that the effort required from everyone is proportionate to their income, targeting savings in areas which do not directly affect the wallets of ordinary citizens, such as reduced defence expenditure, or by addressing inefficiencies in many areas of public spending, challenging vested interests, such as phasing out favourable tax treatments for ship-owners or farmers, or a myriad of exemptions, e.g. for some islands on VAT rates, or of unjustified subsidies, supporting the role of the social partners and the modernisation of the collective bargaini ...[+++]ng system, fighting corruption, tax evasion and undeclared work, supporting a more transparent and efficient public administration, including through moving towards a more independent tax administration, the reorganisation of ministries and the introduction of a better link between salaries and job responsibilities.

phasing in a guaranteed minimum income scheme and providing universal health care, ensuring that the effort required from everyone is proportionate to their income, targeting savings in areas which do not directly affect the wallets of ordinary citizens - such as reduced defence expenditure, or by addressing inefficiencies and eliminating privileges or abuses in many areas of public spending, challenging vested interests, such as phasing out favourable tax treatments, or exemptions, e.g. for some islands on VAT rates, or heavy subsidies supporting the role of the social partners and the modernisation of the collective bargaining system f ...[+++]ighting fraud, corruption and evasion and supporting a more transparent and efficient public administration, including through moving towards a more independent tax administration, the reorganisation of ministries and the introduction of a better link between salaries and job responsibilities.

Although there is not a generalised minimum guaranteed income scheme for the entire population, there exist several categorical income benefit schemes targeted to population groups at greater risk (foremost of whom are elderly, jobless and disabled people).