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Specific solidarity allowance (SSA)
Verified 04 juin 2020 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
The specific solidarity allowance (SSA) can be granted to you if you have exhausted your unemployment rights. Your monthly resources must not exceed a ceiling: €1,182.30 if you are alone or €1,857.90 if you live in couple.. It may be maintained in the event of resumption of activity, subject to conditions.
What applies to you ?
Depending on your personal situation, the steps to take may vary.
Be a job seeker
You must meet all of the following conditions:
- Be fit for work
- Perform positive and repeated actions to find a job or create/take over a business
- Exhausting your rights to Return to Work Allowance (RTA) or end of training pay (RFF)
Prior Activity
You must have worked at least 5 years (full-time or part-time) during the 10 years before the end of your last employment contract. If you have ceased your activity to raise a child, the 5 years are reduced by 1 year per child within the limit of 3 years.
The periods of activity taken into account are:
- completed periods, irrespective of the type of employment contract (CDI, CDD, acting, alternating, etc.), in France or Europe,
- periods treated as periods of actual work (national service, vocational training).
Limit and resources taken into account
You live alone
To collect the ASS, your monthly resources must not exceed a ceiling €1,182.30..
The amount taken into account is the average of the last 12 months of the total resources collected before the month of your application.
Resources | Consideration |
|---|---|
Monthly Resources | Yes if they are greater than €1,182.30 |
Specific solidarity allowance (SSA) | Yes |
Yes if you are a beneficiary. Not if you're the one paying it. | |
Unemployment insurance benefit previously received | No |
Family benefits | No |
No | |
ASS increase | No |
Gratifications paid during a compulsory internship in a company | No |
Business income earned in the 12 months prior to your application | Not if their collection is interrupted on the date of your application and if they did not give rise to a substitute income (daily social security allowances, e.g. early retirement allowances) |
Other Resources (income securities and movable assets, land revenue, capital gains) | Yes, if such income is taxable. Not if these revenues are exempt. |
You live as a couple
To collect the ASS, your monthly resources must not exceed €1,857.90if you live in couple..
The amount taken into account is the average of the last 12 months of the total resources collected before the month of your application.
Resources | Consideration |
|---|---|
Monthly Resources | Yes if they are greater than €1,857.90 |
Specific solidarity allowance (SSA) | Yes |
Yes if you are a beneficiary. Not if you're the one paying it. | |
Unemployment insurance benefit previously received | No |
Family benefits | No |
No | |
ASS increase | No |
Gratifications paid during a compulsory internship in a company | No |
Business income earned in the 12 months prior to your application | Not if their collection is interrupted on the date of your application and if they did not give rise to a substitute income (daily social security allowances, e.g. early retirement allowances) |
Other Resources (income securities and movable assets, land revenue, capital gains) | Yes, if such income is taxable. Not if these revenues are exempt. |
Age
There is no minimum age.
If you have enough quarters to receive a full-rate pension, you cannot receive the ASS after the legal retirement age..
Cumulation with adult disability allowance (HAA)
Since 2017, if you can collect AAH, you can no longer get the ASS. However, if you have rights open to these 2 aids by 31 December 2016, you continue to collect them as long as the eligibility conditions are met, for a maximum period of 10 years.
An application for admission to the ASS is sent to you by Employment Center at the end of your unemployment benefits.
You do not need to take any steps to benefit from the ASS. Pôle emploi directly addresses the printed matter necessary for the creation of the ASS file to the unemployed at the end of the rights that can benefit from it.
ASS is allocated in 6-month renewable periods. A request for renewal is sent to you by Pôle emploi at the end of the compensation period.
The ASS is paid monthly by Pôle emploi in due time (for example, at the beginning of November for the October allocation).
Its daily amount is €16.89 (€506.70 for 1 month of 30 days).
You're unemployed
You live alone
Monthly Resources | Monthly amount of the ASS |
|---|---|
Less than €675.60 | €506.70 |
Between €675.60 and €1,182.30 | €1,182.30 less resources |
Greater than €1,182.30 | No allocation |
You live as a couple
Monthly Resources | Monthly amount of the ASS |
|---|---|
Less than €1,351.20 | €506.70 |
Between €1,351.20 and €1,857.90 | €1,857.90 less resources |
Greater than €1,857.90 | No allocation |
You work
The ASS is fully cumulative with the remuneration of your professional activity (employed or not) for 3 months (consecutive or not) within the limit of the remaining rights.
FYI : for the purpose of calculating the permitted cumulation period, any calendar month in which an activity, whether occasional or reduced, has been carried out shall be taken into account.
You're unemployed
The SSA payment will stop if you are in one of the following cases:
- Resources above ceilings
- No job search
- Follow-up to paid training
- Resuming non-cumulative activity with ASS
- Daily allowance for sickness, maternity or occupational injury
- Removal of allowances by decision of the Prefect or following cancelation
- Perception parental attendance allowance or the daily allowance for accompanying a person at the end of his life
- Possibility of receiving a full-rate pension or reaching the working age limit
You work
After 3 months (consecutive or not) of cumulation with the remuneration of your professional activity:
- If your business activity continues, the payment of the ASS is interrupted.
At the end of 6e month after the resumption of activity, you can collect the activity premium in addition to your remuneration, subject to certain conditions. - If your business activity is interrupted and a period of inactivity of at least 3 consecutive calendar months (and not at least 3 consecutive month from date to date) follows, a new period of accumulation is possible.