You will now have to live in France for nine months of the year to benefit from family assistance.

Expected hardening. From 2025, you will have to spend at least nine months in France, rather than more than six, in a calendar year to receive family support and the minimum old age requirement, according to a decree published on Sunday that formalizes the government’s announcements.

According to the published decree, to receive “family benefits,” a category that includes, among other things, family benefits and the birth bonus, one must reside in the country “for more than nine months during the calendar year of payment.” in the Official Journal. According to the text, these conditions also apply to the minimum age of old age.

Fighting Social Fraud

For most types of social assistance, the current rule is to remain in France for at least half of the previous year, that is, six months. In 2023, the government announced its intention to extend this period to nine months as part of a wide-ranging plan to combat social fraud.

“I would like us to raise the residence requirement within a year,” said Gabriel Attal, then minister of public accounts, in response to a question from Europe 1. “We spend everything in nine months to get social benefits,” he continued . This duration of nine months corresponds, inter alia, to the time required to benefit from the RSA. For APL this period is eight months.

Some aids avoid this tightening of access conditions, such as the Universal Health Protection (Puma) program, the successor to universal health coverage.