I thought everything was sorted at France Travail after my trips there on Monday and Tuesday and subsequent phone call on Wednesday telling me it was all ok.
So I got a shock on Thursday morning when another France Travail worker called me asking me to send in a list of things – including my last three pay slips, my RIB, something to do with the three days I was off sick in February last year and some document from England that I didn’t really understand.
I explained to him that my personal account on the France Travail website is still in the process of being created (eight weeks later) so I can’t upload documents.
He said if it still wasn’t working on Friday I should go back to the office.
So on Friday I went back for my third visit of the week.
This time I was there for quite a while and was helped by three very helpful women.
They explained what all the documents were – and showed me how to scan them in.
They explained to me that the necessary info one about three days off sick could be found in my Ameli account.
Fortunately they let me off the U1 form as it looked like that would take some time.
They also wanted to see my carte de presse. I explained that as I worked as a rédacteur en chef I had never needed one.
How do we get round this problem? I had to write and sign an attestation sur l’honneur which was dictated to me by one of my new friends.
And then after only a couple of hours, we were done- at least I think so.
Yet on Wednesday and Thursday a lot of letters – and I mean a lot – arrived at the house from France Travail.
They are dated before my Friday trip – so I can ignore them, right?
Thrown to (the) Lyon 