Pôle Emploi is the French public employment service. It registers job seekers, pays unemployment benefits, and supports job seekers and companies. It has 1 national authority, 26 local authorities, and over 50,000 employees. In 2010, it paid unemployment benefits to over 2.5 million people and had over 6.3 million registered job seekers. It works to prevent and detect fraud and uses risk management to anticipate problems.