The French are still polluted by telephone canvassing campaigns about the CPF. A bill, tabled by an LREM MP on February 10, 2022, aims to ban these calls in order to fight against scams and forced registrations. The project will then be examined during the summer… only. It also aims to also prohibit the promotion of training, but not advertising.
Are you tired of being harassed on the phone daily by a training organization looking to take advantage of the funds you have accumulated in your CPF account? Politicians are aware of this. Last November, we reported in our columns that an amendment was going to be tabled to stop telephone scams about the CPF. But no project had been submitted… until this week.
A bill tabled in February 2022 wants to ban canvassing on the CPF
Catherine Fabre, LREM MP for Gironde, tabled a bill on Thursday, February 10, 2022 aimed at prohibiting cold calling about your CPF rights. This project is not just about banning nuisance calls and messages from known training centers, but also about preventing scams from scammers who want to siphon off the CPF account of their victims.
This bill also aims to prohibit sales promotion (offers of the type “two paid training sessions, the third is offered“). But it would not prohibit advertising to publicize training and not penalize legitimate organizations. This bill will not be considered for several months Indeed, the parliamentary session will be closed in four weeks. Then will come the time of the legislative elections. It will be necessary to await the formation of a new Assembly for it to be examined. Either at the beginning of summer according to Catherine Fabre.
The French have saved more than 53 billion euros on their CPF
Three years ago, the government set up the CPF as part of the vocational training reform. The CPF, or Personal Training Account, is a service acquired by all employees. In this account, the employee accumulates money which he can then use to pay for training with the aim of specialization or retraining.
This system replaces the Individual right to an education (DIF). To take advantage of it, simply activate your account where the DIF has automatically been converted. And, periodically, the sum increases according to the contributions of employees and employees. There is no deadline to take advantage of it. And you can even enjoy it when you retire.
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38 million French people have a CPF account, sometimes without knowing it. More 53 billion euros have been saved. A tidy sum that attracts the greed of training organizations, but also scammers. Since the launch of the CPF, canvassing campaigns abound, harassing many citizens, whether by SMS, telephone and email. There are many scams. You can find in our columns an article to help you thwart scams and react if you are victims.
Source: Capital
