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Public benefits
Learn Helping the people who help people
Accor Services provides innovative solutions to assist local authorities in the administration of their social benefits.
Our solutions provide a cost-efficient means of distributing social benefits that increase freedom of choice while ensuring that the personal dignity of recipients is respected. We also can provide detailed reporting that helps policymakers in their subsequent decision making.
Solutions can be based on different options, ranging from paper to chip cards. The choice of solution must take account of the programme’s objectives. 
Ticket Services®
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Based on operates in several countries including France, Hungary, Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy and South Africa. |
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Each network of affiliated partners is adapted to the requirements of the local authority in catering for the requirements of its citizens. These can include purchasing basic necessities such as food and clothing, or temporary housing for those most in need. The Ticket Service can then be used only in this network.
Accor Services distributes the benefit and creates a dedicated network of suppliers who deliver the services to beneficiaries. We also help in communicating conditions of use to both the network and beneficiaries.
Accor Services can also develop made-to measure products using similar mechanisms that are branded and packaged to cater for a specific need. In France for example, the Chèque Mobilité® provides free transport to job seekers and workers in youthe training schemes in the greater Paris region.
On the island of Réunion we operate a scheme that gives older people access to complementary health insurance of their choice, funding by the regional government.
In the United Kingdom prior to recent changes in government policyn we operated very successfully the Milk Tokens® programme which ensured that children from low-income families received a minimum weekly allowance of milk until the age of five.
In Germany in addition to a small cash allowance, assistance to refugees awaiting a decision on their immigration status is distributed in the form of vouchers which they can use for food and clothing and the scheme is managed by Accor Services. |
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Ticket Card®
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A number of card based schemes operates in particular to ensure greater access to culture, sports and leisure. |
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For example High School children in certain regions of France receive a chip card that they can use to buy school books in designated bookshops. In Sweden, in areas where school canteens are not a feasible proposition, we operate a card that lets school-goers eat at local restaurants which fulfil nutitional criteria laid down by government. |
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