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ADMIN CHAOS AT RÉGIME SOCIAL DES INDÉPENDANTS MEANS THOUSANDS OF SELF-EMPLOYED HAVE BEEN FORGOTTEN ABOUT FOR TWO YEARS THOUSANDS of self-employed people have been forgotten about by the
social security system for the past two years due to an administrative problem and now face huge bills for overdue health and pension contributions. The _Régime Social des Indépendants_,
which collects social security contributions from 1.6 million self-employed workers, says between 15,000 and 20,000 people have not been issued bills for the past two years. The bug means
about €400m in late social security payments is now due - about €20,000 per person affected. According to _Aujourd'hui en France_, the RSI has blamed the mistake on a computer glitch.
The group introduced a new system in January 2008 to merge three separate databases and make the system compatible with that of sister contributions body Urssaf. The director of the
RSI's payment centre in the Var, Antoine Gros, told the paper: "We are not charging any late penalties and we are making up people's lost pension entitlement. If necessary we
will give people extensions to catch up with overdue payments." According to Ouest France, the RSI wants to get the problem completely fixed by February. The president of trade union
Cidunati told _20 Minutes_: "How, in this age, can an IT bug last two years? No one is accepting any personal responsibility for this."
