Following the death of his or her husband or wife, the surviving spouse may claim payment of a survivors pension. This pension corresponds to part of the retirement pension that the deceased husband or wife received or could have received. It is paid, according to the employment status of the deceas

The amount of a retirement pension depends on many factors, including in particular their date of birth and the length of their contribution to the retirement insurance scheme. With regard to the basic pension scheme, this contribution period is translated into quarters, the number of which is acqui

Suffering from a long-term illness is most often synonymous with long sick leave. Periods without professional activity with consequences for his future retirement. Indeed, during long-term sick leave, the patient is compensated in the form of daily allowances paid by Social Security, he no longer r

About 5% of 50-64 year olds are unemployed according to INSEE and four out of ten retirees were unemployed the year before their retirement according to the Ministry of Labour. Seniors are not the most affected by unemployment in the population, but finding a job when approaching sixty is most often

In principle, you have to work, be a job seeker, on sick leave, on maternity or parental leave to be able to contribute and acquire quarters for your retirement. However, parents who cease their professional activity to raise one or more children, or who have never worked, can accumulate pension rig

Whether they are state, territorial or hospital civil servants, civil servants (or contract workers) depend on different basic and supplementary pension schemes, and with their own rules, from those of private sector employees. The minimum retirement age for civil servants also depends in particular

The Supplement for Third Person (MTP) is a financial supplement paid to people who receive a disability pension and who are obliged to call on the help of a person to help them carry out certain acts of life. daily. Some retirees with a loss of autonomy in particular can also benefit from this finan

The survivors pension, which designates part of the pension of a deceased person paid to his surviving spouse, is allocated according to the latters age and resources. However, to benefit from this survivors pension, the spouse must have been bound by the ties of marriage with the deceased. As a res

If you are under 55, medically recognized as disabled, and your spouse, also disabled, is deceased, you can claim a disabled widows or widowers pension. This is not assigned automatically. It is necessary to apply for it from the health insurance fund of your deceased spouse. What is a disabled wido

Gradual retirement offers the possibility of adjusting the transition from working life to retirement. Work less to collect almost as much. This is the main advantage of this end-of-career development scheme. Progressive retirement allows the employee to carry out his activity part-time while recei

The widowhood allowance is a benefit paid, subject to age and means, to the spouse whose husband or wife is deceased. This is a benefit, allocated monthly, intended to financially help the surviving spouse who does not yet meet the conditions for receiving a survivors pension, in particular that of

People who started working early may benefit from a specific retirement status. They are indeed concerned by what is called a long career which can give rise to early retirement. For this, it is necessary to fulfill certain conditions related to the age and the duration of pension insurance, more pr

After working for many decades and accumulating some savings, its time to rest. And you know what they say:when youre young, you have time and energy, but no money. In your forties, you have the money and the energy, but no longer the time. And when you retire, you finally have the time and the mone

The law grants a right to information on retirement to all persons, employees, civil servants or self-employed. In concrete terms, everyone has the right to have different elements to better know and understand their situation in relation to their future retirement. The individual statement of retir

The retirement points are specific to supplementary pension schemes, just as the quarters, which make it possible to calculate the amount of the retirement pension, are specific to the basic pension scheme. Throughout their professional career, active people contribute to later receive a basic retir

The expression grandfather clause is used to describe the implementation of a reform, most often important, and especially in relation to economic and social life, which is intended to apply in the future and not to the people in place at the time when she is decided. The main goal is to guarantee

The personalized autonomy allowance (Apa) is paid under conditions of age (being at least 60 years old) and dependency (defined by one of the groups of the AGGIR grid) to people who stay at home, such as those accommodated in a specialized medico-social establishment. Depending on one or other of th

In France, retirement pensions are calculated in two different ways depending on the pension scheme to which one is affiliated. Most basic pension schemes are based on the system of annuities, also called quarters, to determine the amount of pensions for each retiree. Others, including certain suppl

The pension and provident fund for clerks and employees of notaries (CRPCEN) is part of the special social security schemes that exist in France, in the same way as that in force for example at the SNCF, the RATP, at EDF, etc This fund manages in particular the basic and supplementary pensions of em

All employees who retire are entitled to an indemnity defined by law. Collective agreements or contractual provisions specific to certain sectors may provide for a retirement indemnity more favorable to the employee than that provided by the legislator. This indemnity is calculated differently depe