Rsi pursues oap for 22 centimes
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SOCIAL SECURITY AGENCY WANTS DOUGH FROM PASTRY-MAKER - BUT SPENDS MORE ON LETTERS THAN THE DEBT A RETIRED pastry-maker has received a threat of legal action from the social security body
Régime Social des Indépendants (RSI) if he does not repay an over-payment of ... just 22 centimes. The RSI threatened him with court action and possible seizure of his property to repay the
debt, which Jean-Louis Micalet said was due to a fault by the RSI. Mr Micalet, 67, from Frontignan, Hérault, said: “You’ve got to laugh when you see the energy expended to reclaim the 22
centimes – especially when they overpaid me by error and yet I am to blame!” The agency said it had sent out an automatic reminder in April - which Mr Micalet said he did not receive -
making the total cost of the two letters much more than the debt. Contacted by _Midi Libre_, the RSI said it was its job to reclaim the money “which if it was multiplied by the millions of
people covered could make a large sum”. Mr Micalet has now sent off a letter and cheque for 22 centimes to the RSI. Photo: Homini (CC BY 2.0)