Declarative or pre-funded Cesu: what differences?

Verified 09 February 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

The individual may use the Declarative Cesu or the Cesu pre-financed in the context of personal services.

Differences exist between the CesuCesu : Universal Service Employment Check and the pre-funded Eesc, in particular on the conditions of use and accession.

We present the main differences between these 2 Ecu.

Tableau - Differences between the declarative and pre-funded Eesc

Object

Declarative Cesu

Pre-financed Eesc (or Eesc title)

What is it for?

The Declarative Eesu allows declare personnel employed at your home in connection with personal services

The pre-funded Cesu allows you to pay for a personal services organization or reward an employee

In what form?

Dematerialized or book of 20 paper social components

The pre-financed Escu is a payment document with a defined amount in the form of a check book or CesuCesu : Universal Service Employment Check dematerialized (E.Cesu)

For what?

Cleaning, ironing, school support...

Caution : for the employment of a registered childminder and an employee for home childcare, the declaration must be made to Pajemploi if you have CafCaf : Family Allowance Fund or MSAMSA : Agricultural social mutual society.

All personal services may be remunerated by securities CesuCesu : Universal Service Employment Check (DIY, school support, childcare...)

What are the benefits?

Fulfills your employer obligations, including:

  • Reporting of earnings in theUrssafUrssaf : Union for the recovery of social security contributions and family allowances
  • Payment of social security contributions
  • Preparation of salary slips
    • Remuneration of a directly employed employee or an approved childminder
    • Payment of the invoice of a declared or approved personal services or a childcare facility (crèche, drop-in center, etc.)

    How to join?

    Where to get them?

    • By Internet at Cesu National Center
    • By mail: Center national du Chèque emploi universal service - 63 rue de la Montat - 42 961 Saint-Étienne Cedex 9

    Granted by:

  • Public or private employers
  • Social and Economic Committee (ESC)
  • Public or private bodies which award social benefits (department services, communal social action centers, social security funds, pension funds, mutual societies, etc.)

    • How to pay your benefits or your employee?

    Check, bank transfer, cash, pre-funded Cesu or Cesu+ if you have subscribed to this scheme

    With the payment document that was granted to you

    Who can help me?

    Find who can answer your questions in your region

    • Urssaf service Cesu

      To find out if you are an individual employer using the Cesu or an employee declared with the Cesu device

      By telephone

      0 806 802 378 - (Free service + Variable call price depending on the telephone operator).

      Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm

      In Martinique and Guadeloupe: until 11am

      In French Guiana: until 12pm

      In Reunion: from 11am to 7pm

      From the foreigner: 00 33 806 802 378 (Toll free service + variable call price depending on the telephone operator).

      By email

      Access to contact form

      By mail

      Urssaf service Cesu

      63 de la Montat Street

      42 961 Saint-Étienne cedex 9