Solidarity Allowance in Old Age
Allocation de solidarité aux personnes âgées, ASPA
Coverage
- Persons residing in France who have reached the age of 65 and cannot sufficiently cover their necessary subsistence with their own income or assets.
Financing
- The scheme is entirely tax-financed out of the state budget via the Solidarity Fund for Old Age (Fonds de solidarité vieillesse).
Administration
- The benefit is served by the institutions which are responsible for the payment of the beneficiary’s regular pension. If no such institution exists, a special service belonging to the Deposit and Consignment Office (Caisse des dépôts et des consignations) will take over the responsibility.
Qualifying Conditions
- Persons who have reached the age of 65 (reduced to 62 for persons born after 1955 if the person suffers from invalidity).
- Persons residing in France.
- Benefits are means-tested: the person’s annual income must be below a certain level according to the situation of the household (not higher than EUR 10,418.40 for a single person and EUR 16,174.59 for a family in 2019); the income taken into account includes salaries, retirement pensions and particular assets (the principal residence of the beneficiary is excluded).
Benefits
- The amount of benefits granted can reach about EUR 900 for one individual per month.
- In case of personal income, a partial benefit is paid up to the level of the solidarity allowance.
- The benefit is paid monthly (at the beginning of a month).
- Benefits are not subject to income tax.
Coverage
Financing
Administration
Qualifying Conditions
Benefits
- Persons residing in France who have reached the age of 65 and cannot sufficiently cover their necessary subsistence with their own income or assets.
- The scheme is entirely tax-financed out of the state budget via the Solidarity Fund for Old Age (Fonds de solidarité vieillesse).
- The benefit is served by the institutions which are responsible for the payment of the beneficiary’s regular pension. If no such institution exists, a special service belonging to the Deposit and Consignment Office (Caisse des dépôts et des consignations) will take over the responsibility.
- Persons who have reached the age of 65 (reduced to 62 for persons born after 1955 if the person suffers from invalidity).
- Persons residing in France.
- Benefits are means-tested: the person’s annual income must be below a certain level according to the situation of the household (not higher than EUR 10,418.40 for a single person and EUR 16,174.59 for a family in 2019); the income taken into account includes salaries, retirement pensions and particular assets (the principal residence of the beneficiary is excluded).
- The amount of benefits granted can reach about EUR 900 for one individual per month.
- In case of personal income, a partial benefit is paid up to the level of the solidarity allowance.
- The benefit is paid monthly (at the beginning of a month).
- Benefits are not subject to income tax.
Legal Basis: Social Security Code – Articles L815-1 to L815-6 (Code de la sécurité sociale, articles L815-1 à L815-6).