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In 2018, Social security paid out €470 billion in social benefits, equivalent to 20% of France's GDP of €2,353 billion. [1] Its main expenditure is on benefits for the sickness branch of the general scheme (€198.3 billion) and benefits for the old-age branch of the general scheme (€126.3 billion).
When creating Social Security, France imitated more the Bismarckian system (insurance for workers) than the Beveridge one (widespread solidarity). Over the years, the solidarity (as opposed to a system of contributions) has gradually developed in the French system, which the foundation remains the concept of insurance.
The state scheme is financed by a payroll tax known as "social security contributions". The rate in 2013 is 15.15% (8.4% for the employer and 6.75% for the employee) of pay up to the social security contribution ceiling of €37,032, and 1.7% (1.6% for the employer and 0.1% for the employee) on the remainder of the salary. [7]
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The French Universal Health Coverage (French: Couverture maladie universelle, abbreviated as "CMU") is the French social security program concerning health care, which was implemented in January 2000 (loi n o 99-641 du 27 juillet 1999).
Until 1 January 2018 it was called the National Health Insurance Fund. It was created by the 1967 ordinance which established a separation of Social Security into autonomous branches: sickness (CNAM), family (CNAF) and old age (CNAV). It acts under the supervision of the Ministry of Social Security and the Ministry of Economy and Finance. [1]
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The URSSAF (pronounced; Unions de Recouvrement des Cotisations de Sécurité Sociale et d'Allocations Familiales, meaning the Organizations for the Collection of Social Security and Family Benefit Contributions) is a network of private organizations created in 1960 whose main task is to collect employee and employer social security contributions that finance the Régime general (general ...