ThoseWill –The commandments to pay the fee doubled
The Serafe perception organ now sends systematic reminders since its address files are up to date. The number of procedures has exploded.
Posted today at 5:34 p.m.
Reminders and commandments to pay for the radio royalty – TV took the elevator in 2024.
Florian Cella / 24 Hours
Subscribe now and take advantage of the audio reading function.
- The commands to pay Serafe dubbed in 2024 with 112,448 shipments.
- The improvement of data now allows better monitoring of payments.
- The 335 franc royalty applies to almost all Swiss households.
- The recall costs increased the benefits of Serafe at 5.9 million.
Would the Swiss be reluctant to pay the fee? You might think, given the figures communicated in its annual report by Serafe. The perception body, the mandate of which was extended until 2034, reveals that 112,448 commandments to pay were sent in 2024, twice as much as the previous year (55’380), reveals the “Sonntagsblick”.
Letters can indeed quickly accumulate: in the event of late payment, the household will receive three reminders before being the subject of a recovery procedure. Moreover, everyone Or almost is now required to pay the fee (335 fr.), because everyone can have access to the programs via their computer or mobile phone.
The households of diplomats, deaf and/or blind people are except, and those who are for the benefit of social assistance or additional services.
-The increase in these reminders is not only due to a sudden resistance of people, explains to the “Blick” the spokesperson of Serafe, Erich Heynen: “The more the quality of the data provided is coherent, the more the process of recovery and recovery of claims can be carried out in a coherent manner.”
Wrong data from 2019
You should know that when the Federal Communication Office (OFCOM) designated Serafe to cash the fee to replace Billag, in 2019, many addresses problems appeared. Malted or inaccuracies invoices on the number of people per household created chaos from the beginning of 2019, which took several years to absorb.
Consequently, OFCOM has decided to reduce the number of reminders to the bare minimum during the first years, during which Serafe received the instruction not to open debt recovery procedures. For the past two years, the data has been more reliable, which explains the increase in the number of reminders.
This increase represents additional income, notes the German daily. Serafe can indeed “perceive the costs of opening a procedure itself”, or 5 francs per recall and 20 francs per recovery file. Serafe’s profit thus increased from 3.1 million francs in 2023 to 5.9 million in 2024.
“Latest news”Do you want to stay at the top of the info? “24 Hours” offers you two meetings per day, directly in your email box. To not miss anything of what is happening in your canton, Switzerland or in the world.
Other newslettersConnect
Did you find an error? Please report it to us.
9 comments
