What resources are taken into account for the calculation of RSA entitlements?
Verified 06 March 2025 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
The amount of the RSARSA : Income from active solidarity is calculated based on your resources and of the members of your hearth.
The resources taken into account are:
- Income from employment (wages, bonuses, overtime, remuneration by Cesu pre-financed, severance pay, compensatory allowance for paid leave, compensatory period of notice, etc.)
- Income from self-employment
- Volunteer allowance in some cases
- Per diem of motherhood, fatherhood, adoption
- Per diem of disease, accident at work, occupational disease
- Short-time work allowances
- Unemployment benefits (return-to-work allowance, occupational security allowance)
- Retirement pension
- Annuities and capital paid in the event of death
- Maintenance and compensatory benefits
- Daily support allowance for a person at the end of life
- Compensation paid to victims of asbestos
- Exceptional resources (sale of a house, sale of a building, sale of land, inheritance, winnings at games, etc.)
- Invested capital (real non-income-producing assets are considered to be notionally producing an annual income equal to 3% their amount (e.g. life insurance contract). However, booklet A is not affected by the 3% : you only have to declare the interest earned annually. Amounts on current accounts are not included in the calculation of the SSA.
- Some family benefits (for example: family allowances, family supplement, family support allowance)
- Disabled Adult Allowance (DAA)
- Supplementary Disability Allowance (SIA)
- Monthly lump-sum business resumption premium
- Rents of a rented dwelling or building
- Rental value of a dwelling, building, premises or unleased land
- Social Assistance for Children as a Trusted Third Party
These resources are differently taken into account according to your personal situation.
You must verify your quarterly pre-filled resource return, validate it and, if necessary, complete it with your other resources collected over the period (child support for example).
If necessary, you can contact your CafCaf : Family Allowance Fund or the MSAMSA : Agricultural social mutual society if you're under the farm plan.
Caf
You can obtain an estimate of your rights using a simulator:
Estimate your right to the RSA (Caf)
You can inquire with your Cof:
Conditions for the award of the RSA
Determination of resources
Non-income-producing goods
Non-income-producing goods: Article L132-1
Calculation of the SSA for self-employed persons
Taking account of livret A and life insurance
Simulator