Progressive retirement of public officials
Verified 19 September 2023 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
Do you want to reduce your professional activity at the end of your career as you approach retirement? The phased retirement scheme allows for this. We'll explain the conditions.
Warning
If you are contractual, the conditions for gradual retirement are the same as for a private-sector employee.
Progressive retirement is a system that enables you to work part-time at the end of your career and at the same time receive part of your pensions (basic and supplementary).
During that period, you continue to contribute to retirement. You can choose to over-contribute, i.e. contribute to retirement on the basis of a full-time salary.
When you completely cease your employment, your final retirement is recalculated taking into account the period during which you continued to work part-time.
You can learn more about phased retirement using an online service:
You can apply for a phased retirement if you are 2 years or less 2 years of the statutory minimum retirement age.
The required age is the same whether you are an official of active category or sedentary.
It will therefore be necessary in the long term to be at least 62 years old to be able to benefit from a gradual retirement.
You were born: | Minimum legal age retiring | You can leave by phased retirement from: |
|---|---|---|
Between 1er september 1961 and 31 December 1961 | 62 years and 3 months | 60 years and 3 months |
In 1962 | 62 years and 6 months | 60 years and 6 months |
In 1963 | 62 years and 9 months | 60 years and 9 months |
In 1964 | 63 yrs | 61 yrs |
In 1965 | 63 years and 3 months | 61 years and 3 months |
In 1966 | 63 years and 6 months | 61 years and 6 months |
In 1967 | 63 years and 9 months | 61 years and 9 months |
From 1er january 1968 | 64 yrs | 62 yrs |
You must also fill in the 2 following conditions :
- Proof of an insurance period and periods recognized as equivalent of 150 quarters with one or more basic pension funds
- To engage in part-time paid employment between 50% and 90% a full time. This condition is not required if you are employed on a non-full-time or incomplete job. If you hold multiple jobs on a non-full-time or incomplete basis, your total working time should not exceed 90% of a full time.
Please note
You can apply for the phased retirement if you are already part-time.
In addition, you must not engage in any professional activity other than your activity in the public service. You must not combine your public service job with one or more other activities.
Warning
Part-time work for therapeutic reasons is not part of part-time work qualifying for progressive retirement.
The approach varies depending on whether you are a public servant under the SRE: titleContent or territorial or hospital official under the CNRACL: titleContent.
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State official
You must apply for a phased retirement at SRE: titleContent preferably via your Ensap account:
Secure digital space for public officials (Ensap): pension account
If you are unable to apply online for a phased retirement, you can do so using the following form:
Application for the phased retirement of a public official or a magistrate
And you must send this form to SRE: titleContent the address of which appears on page 7 of the form.
You must submit your application at least 6 months before the desired gradual retirement date.
Your application must specify the desired start date for your phased retirement.
This start date cannot be earlier than the date of your request.
Your employer authority shall forward the authorization to work part-time to the SRE at least 4 months before the desired gradual retirement date.
If you already have part-time work when you apply for a phased retirement, you must include it in your application.
Once you have completed your file, you will receive a partial pension statement indicating the elements taken into account for the calculation and the amount that will be paid to you.
You are informed 30 days before the desired departure date of the gradual retirement award.
If you qualify for a phased retirement on 1er day of a month, your gradual retirement is due to you from 1er the day of the month following the date on which you meet these conditions.
The phased retirement payment begins one month after the SRE notifies you of the phased retirement award.
Territorial or hospital official
You must apply for a phased retirement from your employer authority, which will forward it to the CNRACL: titleContent.
You must submit your application at least 6 months before the desired gradual retirement date.
Your application must specify the desired start date for your partial phased retirement.
This start date cannot be earlier than the date of your request.
Your employer authority sends the authorization to work part-time to CNRACL.
If you qualify for a phased retirement on 1er day of a month, your gradual retirement is due to you from 1er the day of the month following the date on which you meet these conditions.
The phased retirement payment begins one month after you are notified by NRCAN of the phased retirement award.
Your gradual retirement will result in the provisional calculation of your SRE or NRACL retirement pension based on your entitlement at the time of your application.
During your phased retirement, you receive a fraction of your retirement pension in addition to your part-time working income.
The amount of pension you receive varies, depending on how long you work part-time compared to the statutory maximum.
The amount of your retirement pension is equal to the difference between 100% and your share of part-time work.
For example, part-time at 60% entitles you to 40% the amount of your temporary retirement.
The same portion of the pension is granted to you by any other basic pension plans to which you have rights and by theIrcantec.
The effects of a change in situation vary depending on the nature of the change.
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Your working hours are changing
If your working hours change, your employer authority informs the SRE or the NACL.
The amount of your pension is revised from 1er the day of the month following the month in which the change occurred.
If your working hours change on 1er by one month, the amount of your pension is revised from that day.
You no longer meet the conditions for a phased retirement
The payment of your phased retirement is suspended if you no longer meet the conditions to benefit from it.
For example, if you stop working on an availability.
The payment of your phased retirement is suspended from 1er the day of the month following the month in which you no longer qualify.
If you no longer meet the conditions for gradual retirement on 1er on a day of one month, the payment of your progressive retirement is suspended from that day.
You are resuming full-time activity
If you resume full-time or full-time work, your gradual retirement is permanently terminated.
Your phased retirement will cease to be paid as of 1er the day of the month following the month in which you resume full-time or full-time business.
If you resume full-time or full-time activity on 1er On a day of one month, your graduated pension ceases to be paid to you on that day.
You can no longer benefit again from the gradual retirement, even if you work part-time again.
When you apply for your final retirement, the portion of your retirement pension paid to you during your progressive retirement, in addition to your working income, is replaced by your full retirement pension.
Your final full retirement pension is calculated according to the usual rules for calculating retirement pension.
The period of gradual retirement during which you worked part-time and continued to contribute for retirement is taken into account as all periods of your working life.
Part-time quarters count as full-time quarters for the purposes of calculating your insurance term and, for their actual duration, for the purposes of calculating your liquidatable quarters.
Your final retirement pension may not be less than your provisional retirement which was calculated on your gradual retirement and of which you received a portion during your gradual retirement period.
Once you have retired permanently, if you continue or resume a professional activity, the exercise of that professional activity is subject to the rules of the job-pension cumulation.
Who can help me?
Find who can answer your questions in your region
If you are a public servant
State Pension Service (SRE)If you are a territorial or hospital official
National Pension Fund for Local Government Officials (CNRACL)
Part-time work
Ministry of Public Service
Public interest grouping "Union retirement"
Supplementary pension institution for non-permanent officials of the State and public authorities (Ircantec)