Allowances to families

Family benefits: residency requirements to receive them will change in 2025

Publié le 25 avril 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

From 2025 onwards, it will be necessary to reside in France for 9 months a year, instead of 6 months until then, to receive family benefits and benefit from the minimum old age. Service-Public.fr informs you.

A decree of 19 April 2024, published in Official Journal of 21 April 2024, amends the conditions of residence for family benefits.

From 2025 onwards, you will have to reside 9 months per year in France, instead of 6 months until then, to collect family benefits.

This new condition shall enter into force on 1er january 2025.

Please note

there is no nationality requirement to receive family benefits in France; moreover, you can prove your residence in France by any means.

What benefits are involved?

This decree concerns family benefits and the minimum old age. Family benefits provide financial assistance to families for the care and maintenance of children. For example:

Warning  

Some aids do not fall within the scope of the decree. This is the case, for example, with the universal health protection (Puma).

The Social Security Code lays down the list of family benefits covered by these new provisions.

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