This result appears in the association's annual report. It is noted as poverty is rising in France, which places opinion on solidarity at the heart of the debate on precarity.
According to AFP, Secours Catholique presented an OpinionWay poll on November 12, 2026. In this survey, 63% of respondents believe that"society should show solidarity only with the most deserving people.".
The same report does not stop at the poll. It denounces the isolation, health problems and institutional mistreatment suffered by the most precarious people.
The association thus describes a precarity that is not limited to income: loneliness, health difficulties and institutional treatment that it describes as mistreatment are part of the picture it paints.
According to AFP, among the beneficiaries supported by Secours Catholique in 2025, nearly 95% lived below the poverty line. Almost all of the people followed are therefore below this threshold.
According to AFP, the association stresses the lack of a precise definition of"merit."The condition set by respondents therefore remains without an explicit criterion, in an annual report that also documents the isolation and the situation of the most precarious.