Students: change in your health insurance

You enroll for the first time in higher education in the 2019 school year

You do not have to make any steps or pay any social security contributions, you remain connected to your health insurance plan (usually that of your parents) to reimburse your health expenses.

You can create an account on ameli.fr (general scheme), msa.fr (farm plan) or other special plan so you can easily track your health expenses.

You were already a student

If you continue your studies in 2019/2020 and you were registered with a student mutual as a management center, you are automatically attached as of the 1^er September 2019 at the Primary Health Insurance Fund (CPAM) of your place of residence (student mutual societies will continue to offer health supplements specifically adapted to students).

If you started your graduate studies in the fall of 2018 and continue to be a student, nothing changes, since you already joined the general plan when you first registered. So you're still covered by the same social security system for free.

You're going abroad for your studies

If you go abroad for your studies, an internship, a break, a work holiday permit, etc., your rights to French health insurance are no longer insured. When you stay in the European Union, you have to ask the european health insurance card before you leave. For the rest of the world, health protection varies depending on the country you are visiting.