Civil service: individual guarantee of purchasing power (Gipa)

Verified 14 August 2023 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

You can benefit from a allowance individual purchasing power guarantee (Gipa) if the evolution of your index raw processing is 4-year lower to that of the consumer price index.

If you are entitled to it, the compensation is paid automatically with your treatment.

We present you with the information you need to know.

The individual guarantee of purchasing power (Gipa) is intended to compensate for your loss of purchasing power if your remuneration has little increased in the last 4 years.

You can benefit from it if your index treatment is lower over a reference period of 4 years than that of the consumer price index.

One simulator allows you to evaluate, indicating your increased index on your pay slips, if you are eligible for Gipa and the amount you may receive:

Estimate the amount of the Individual Purchasing Power Guarantee Benefit (Ippa)

Gipa may be granted to you if you are a civil servant or contract DTADTA : Contract of employment of indefinite duration or CSDCSD : Fixed-term contract.

If you are a contract employee, you must have been employed by continuous manner by the same public employer during the reference period 4-year-olds and whose remuneration is index-based.

Gipa can be granted to you regardless of your hierarchical category (A, B and C).

In order to benefit from the Gipa, you must complete all conditions following:

  • You must have been paid for at least 3 years in the 4-year period
  • You must not have held a functional position (i.e., a senior public or executive position) in any of the 2 years that limits the 4-year qualifying period, unless it is a functional position available to Class B and C officers
  • If you are a civil servant, you must not hold a grade with an index of the last step above 1 067 (or if you are a contract employee, you must not be paid on the basis of an index above 1 067)
  • You must not be posted abroad on December 31 of the year that ends the 4-year qualifying period
  • You must not have been disciplined within the 4-year period that led to a decrease in your index treatment

Formula

The purchasing power guarantee allowance (G) shall be calculated on the basis of index raw treatments annual (TBA), as follows:

G = YTD of the starting year of the reference period x (1 + inflation over the reference period) - YTD of the ending year of the reference period.

The annual index gross salaries (ABR) taken into account are calculated as follows:

ABR = Increased index held on 31 December of the year of the beginning and the year of the end of the reference period x Annual value of the index point for each of these 2 years.

If you have worked part-time or if you have held a non-full or incomplete job during the 4 years, you can receive the Gipa in proportion to the time worked on 31 December of the year of end of the reference period:

G = YTD of the starting year of the reference period x (1 + inflation over the reference period) - YTD of the ending year of the reference period x working time quota on 31 December of the year of the end of the reference period.

FYI  

If you are entitled to a prior index treatment (for example, after a tenure before the 4-year period) and are remunerated accordingly on the basis of an index different from the index you hold, the Gipa is calculated on the basis of the index that is used to calculate your remuneration.

Calculation elements

For the implementation of the allowance in 2023:

  • The reference period is set from 31 December 2018 to 31 December 2022
  • The annual value of the index point for 2018 was €56.2323
  • The annual value of the index point for 2022 was €57.2164
  • The inflation taken into account is 8.19%

The Gipa is yours automatically paid if you meet the conditions to receive it.

You have no no gait to be carried out.

It is paid 1 time per year in 1 time at the end of the year when the elements to be taken into account for its calculation are known.

If you have changed employers within one or between the three public services during the 4-year period, it is your employer on December 31 of the year that closes the 4-year period that pays you the Gipa.

Estimate the amount of the Individual Purchasing Power Guarantee Benefit (Ippa)