Interest in the communities is at least double

Cheques, tickets, pass: what the Word use are local communities of these titles for payment preference to aid and benefit increases. "Demand continues to grow." The perimeter of the territorial officers is widely exceeded. "Today, it extends to the whole of the population", said Yann Kerbriand-Postic, Director of the communities of the cheque lunch group, which claims more than 50 of the local public sector market.

In the opinion of this operator, as one of the leaders of Accor, its main competitor with Sodexho, regions and departments are more eager to use this formula. And they do now for many other services that the simple issuance of securities or cheques lunch to their staff, practical become commonplace. Mandatory social action departments thus opens a wide field of applications to check employment universal service (Cesu) issued by these three majors of the sector as well as La Banque Postale, Dexia, Natexis-Banques Populaires.

Six General Councils, including the Nièvre, Pyrénées-Orientales, Haute-Corse and Corsica of the South, pass through this device to provide the personalized autonomy (APA) allowance to the elderly. The same formula should not delay to be applied to other audiences, such as persons with disabilities that affect the PCH (compensation for disability benefit) or childhood via ESA (child welfare).

Interest in the communities is at least double. "The effectiveness of the assistance is checked", on the one hand says Hervé Jeanson, Executive Director of Accor Services France. Allocated assistance can benefit only to a single beneficiary and within a given time, that does not guarantee the payment of an allowance to a bank account. It is also a way to optimize the public expenditure, the amount of the cheques obsolete being returned to the community by the issuing company immediately past their expiration date. The Department of Pyrénées-Orientales have thus made 20 savings on budget APA. "This reduces the costs of control of communities," said substance Yann Kerbriand-Postic.

Readability to public action

If this isn't his first vocation, the cheque or the ticket is also a valuable promotional support for the regions and departments, including the role and skills are not always clearly identified by the public. Their logo and the slogan are still in place on these titles. Politicians, too, to not forget each book in General on the photo of the President. "This gives the public action clearer," says the representative of cheque lunch.

Communities are increasingly seeking products adjusted for specific assistance in the direction of a specific audience. It is the target of the school and the unemployed in the field of transport, such as in Var and Ile-de-France. It is the high school students, particularly in the North - Pas-de-Calais, for the purchase of textbooks or the acquisition of equipment work for students apprentices. Always in the direction of young people, many areas have developed culture checkbooks formula. "We can respond to measure at the request of local communities," explains Hervé Jeanson. His group aligns 25 different products, either currently 1.3 million beneficiaries. "With those requesting, we sell our expertise in issuing cheques, mounting of affiliate networks, taking in charge of back office", details Yann Kerbriand-Postic, whose group is not at rest. Cheque lunch introduced cheques of the Paca region on renewable energy aid or those granted to primo-tenants by the General Council of the Bouches.