The National Assembly has adopted a controversial measure providing for the temporary suspension of unemployment benefits in cases of suspected fraud. This provision is part of the bill on combating social and fiscal fraud, whose examination was interrupted in the night of February 27 to 28. Debates will resume after the municipal elections.
The examination of the bill on combating social and fiscal fraud was suspended at the National Assembly in the night from Friday February 27 to Saturday February 28, around midnight. Despite this interruption, the deputies approved one of the most debated measures in the text: the temporary halt of unemployment benefit payments when a suspicion of cheating is established.
This provision was introduced during the first reading of the bill in the Senate, in October 2025. It aims to strengthen the powers of France Travail, the public body responsible for compensating job seekers. From now on, the agents of this organization will be able to process connection and traceability data contained in its information system. They will also have the ability to query the services of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which manage the register of French citizens established abroad.
Work on the text will resume on a date not yet set, after the break linked to the municipal elections. The deputies of the Palais-Bourbon will sit again from March 23.
