Up to what age can you work in the public service?

You can apply for permission to remain in office until age 70, regardless of your situation.

If your employer authority refuses you this authorization, it must give reasons for its refusal.

To be kept in business, you must be physically fit to continue working.

You must send a written request for postponement from the age limit to your employer administration at least 6 months before your 67^e birthday.

Your employer administration must inform you of its decision at least 3 months before your 67th birthday^e birthday.

You can ask to continue your activity beyond the age of 67 if you are in one of the following situations:

• You still have one or more dependent children at age 67. You can work, in this case, 1 additional year per child at the expense without the extension of activity exceeding 3 years total. The children you consider are those for whom you receive family benefits or those entitled to Disabled Adult Allowance
• You were parent of at least 3 children alive at age 50. You can work, in this case, 1 additional year. This increase in the age limit can be combined with the previous one if one of your dependent children at 67 years of age has a disability at least equal to 80% or is entitled to Disabled Adult Allowance
• You are a parent, or you have raised and maintained, one or more children who died for France. You can work in that case 1 additional year per child deceased.

Your employer administration cannot refuse you permission to continue your activity on any of these grounds.

However, to be kept in operation, you must be physically fit to keep working.

You must send a written request for postponement from the age limit to your employer administration at least 6 months before your 67^e birthday.

Your request must indicate the reason for which you are requesting this deferral and be accompanied by the relevant supporting documents.

Your employer administration must inform you of its decision at least 3 months before your 67th birthday^e birthday.

You can ask to work beyond 67 if you do not have enough liquidatable quarters to benefit from a pension at the maximum rate of 75% your last raw index treatment.

Liquidatable quarters are the quarters actually paid in the retirement pension.

This number of quarters varies depending on your year of birth:

This extension is granted subject to the value of the service and your physical fitness to keep working.

You may be allowed to continue your business until you have the number of quarters required to qualify for a maximum rate or for a period of time Maximum 10 quarters (2 and a half years).

The incomplete career extension is granted to you after application of the possibilities to raise the age limit for children where you can benefit from these possibilities to raise the age limit for children.

Periods of retention for incomplete careers are taken into account in the constitution and settlement of your pension rights.

You must send a written request deferring the age limit to your employer administration at least 6 months before your 67^e birthday.

Your request must indicate the reason for which you are requesting this deferral and be accompanied by the relevant supporting documents.

Your employer administration must inform you of its decision at least 3 months before your 67th birthday^e birthday.

You can request to continue your activity beyond the age limit applicable to you if you are in one of the following situations:

• You still have one or more dependent children when you reach the age limit. You can work, in this case, 1 additional year per child at the expense without the extension of activity exceeding 3 years total. The children you consider are those for whom you receive family benefits or those entitled to Disabled Adult Allowance
• You were parent of at least 3 children alive at age 50. You can work, in this case, 1 additional year. This increase in the age limit can be combined with the previous one if one of your dependent children, when you reach the age limit, has a disability of at least 80% or is entitled to the allowance for disabled adults
• You are a parent, or you have raised and maintained, one or more children who died for France. You can work in that case 1 additional year per child deceased.

Your employer administration cannot refuse you permission to continue your activity on any of these grounds.

To be kept in business, however, you must be physically fit to continue working.

You must send a written request for postponement from the age limit to your employer administration at least 6 months before the age limit applicable to you.

Your request must indicate the reason for which you are requesting this deferral and be accompanied by the relevant supporting documents.

Your employer administration must inform you of its decision at least 3 months before the age limit.

You can apply to be kept in business until age 67.

This extension of activity up to 67 years of age may be granted to you after application of the possibilities for extending the age limit which may be granted for the following reasons:

• Activity extension one year per dependent child if you have one or more dependent children when you reach the age limit applicable to you without the extension of your activity exceeding 3 years in total
• Activity extension one year if you were a parent of at least 3 children living at age 50
• Activity extension for incomplete quarry

This activity extension is granted subject to your physical fitness to keep working.

You cannot request an extension of the age limit if you are on long-term or part-time medical leave.

And if, during your period of extended activity up to 67 years, your condition justifies your placement on long-term or sick leave, part-time for therapeutic reasons or your reclassification for physical incapacity, your extended activity is terminated.

You're then removed from the executive and you're retired.

Periods of continued employment up to 67 years of age are taken into account in the constitution and liquidation of your pension rights and may be eligible for the premium.

You must formulate your request for extension of activity at least 6 months of the age limit applicable to you.

Your employer administration shall acknowledge receipt thereof.

Your application must be accompanied by a medical certificate prepared by an approved medical practitioner who has demonstrated your physical fitness for the job you hold.

The doctor may ask your employer's administration for any useful information relating to your working conditions and matters related to your position. You also receive all the documents sent to the doctor.

You, and your employer administration, can cchallenge the conclusions of the medical certificate in front of the medical board. If your employer administration refers the matter to the medical board, it will inform you.

Your employer’s administration will notify you of its decision at least 3 months before the age limit applicable to you.

In not responding to your request for more than 3 months, your employer administration is implicitly considered to have given its consent at your request. You can ask your employer's administration to issue you a certificate of authorization for the continuation of activity.

When the medical council is seized, your employer’s administration shall make its decision within one month of the opinion of the medical practitioner.

Until the administration makes a decision, you remain in office.

If you become physically unfit for duty during the extension period, the extension period shall be terminated.