The extension of waiting days, a proposal that convinces neither unions nor SMEs

Since last year, a little tune has been coming back regularly: according to the government, the number of sick leave is going "off the rails." Fraud involving daily allowances has represented 42 million euros in 2024 according to Health Insurance. More than twice what they represented in 2023. During the examination of the 2025 social security financing bill, the director of Health Insurance , Thomas Fatôme, announced that he wanted to tackle the issue. Since July 1, new paper forms, more difficult to falsify, have therefore become mandatory in an attempt to stop the phenomenon. Not enough in the eyes of the government, which, for its part, is submitting the idea of doubling the number of waiting days, to achieve the objective of