End-of-career management

An online service set up to simplify your application for a gradual retirement

Publié le 10 février 2025 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

Progressive retirement allows you, at the end of your career, to receive part of your retirement pension while continuing your professional activity on a part-time basis. During this period, you continue to contribute, thereby improving your retirement income. You can now apply online to all your pension plans at once.

Since the beginning of 2025, the official portal info-retirement.fr has offered an online service allowing you to fulfill your request for a gradual retirement; your request is transmitted to all your pension plans, basic and supplementary.

Previously, you had to send your application by mail to the various pension plans on which you depended.

FYI  

If you are not using the online service, you can still apply for a phased retirement by mail to all pension funds to which you have been affiliated during your career.

How to apply online for a phased retirement?

Your request for a phased retirement must be made between 4 and 5 months before the desired start date.

If you are an employee, you must first ask your employer to complete the certificate to be attached to your application (the employer attestation is not required to validate your application if you are a public servant, self-employed, liberal professional or employee of individual employers).

To apply online, you must use the "apply for progressive retirement" service, which is available from your retirement account. The procedure is carried out in 2 stages:

  • The first is to determine whether you can achieve a phased retirement.
  • then, if it appears that you can benefit, the second step is to fill out a personalized and pre-filled form (if you can't benefit from a gradual retirement, a message tells you the reason and the service to contact if you have any questions).

As you complete the form, you will see a list of supporting documents (employer attestation, RIB...).

You are not required to complete the entire form and submit all the supporting documents immediately. You can click "save my application and quit" to stop the process and resume it later; your form is saved for up to 90 days.

Once you have completed the form and submitted the necessary documents, your application is sent to all pension plans that you have depended on. Their services may contact you if they need further clarification.

You can view the status of your application in the pension account tracking service (you must click on “my inquiries” and then “follow my inquiries”).

Please note

Before making your application for a phased retirement, you can consult on your pension account your career record to verify that all your activities have been taken into account; then you can make an estimate to evaluate:

  • the date on which your phased retirement can start;
  • the amount you will receive, depending on the activity rate you want to work at during your phased retirement.

Reminder

To benefit from a gradual retirement, you must:

  • have reached the required age, set at 2 years before your statutory retirement age (the age from which you can start gradual retirement is between 60 and 62 years, depending on your year of birth);
  • show proof of at least 150 quarters already registered for your pension rights;
  • work part-time (between 40% and 80% of full-time in the private sector, and between 50% and 90% of full-time in the public service).

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