Declarative or pre-funded Cesu: what differences?
Verified 06 July 2022 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister), Ministry of Economy
The universal service employment check is:
- or an employment title, which makes it possible, in particular, to declare an employee (Cesu: titleContent declarative),
- or a special payment document, which makes it possible to pay an employee in whole or in part (Cesu: titleContent pre-funded)
The individual may use the Reportable or Pre-funded Eesc as part of personal services.
Object | Declarative Cesu | Pre-financed Eesc (or Eesc title) |
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What is it for? | The Declarative Cesu allows you to declare personnel employed at your home in connection with personal services | The Cesu pre-financed allows you to pay for a personal services organization or reward an employee |
In what form? | Dematerialized or book of 20 paper social components | Payment document in the form of a registered check and a defined amount |
For what? | Cleaning, ironing, school support... Caution : for the employment of a registered childminder and an employee for home childcare, the declaration must be made to Pajemploi if you have Caf: titleContent or MSA: titleContent. | All personal services can be remunerated by Cesu titles (DIY, school support, childcare...) |
Benefits | Fulfills your employer obligations, including: - Declaration of remuneration to the Urssaf - Payment of social security contributions - Preparation of salary slips | - Remuneration of a directly employed employee or an approved childminder - Payment of the invoice of a declared or approved personal services or a childcare facility (crèche, drop-in center, etc.) |
How to join? Where to get them? | - By Internet at Cesu National Center - By post: Center national du Chèque emploi universal service - 63, rue de la Montat - 42 961 Saint-Étienne Cedex 9 | Granted by: - employers (public or private), - the Social and Economic Committee (ESC), - public or private bodies which award social benefits (department services, communal social action centers, social security funds, pension funds, mutual societies, etc.) |
How to pay your benefits or your employee? | Check, bank transfer, pre-financed Cesu or Cesu+ if you have subscribed to this scheme | With the payment document that was granted to you |
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Urssaf service Cesu
To find out if you are an individual employer using the Cesu or an employee declared with the Cesu device
By telephone
0 806 802 378
Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm
In Martinique and Guadeloupe: until 11am
In French Guiana: until 12pm
In Reunion: from 11am to 7pm
From the foreigner: 00 33 806 802 378 (Toll free service + variable call price depending on the telephone operator).
By email
Access to contact form
By mail
Urssaf service Cesu
63 de la Montat Street
42 961 Saint-Étienne cedex 9
Utilization of the pre-funded CESU, definition and implementation of the CESU (L1271-1 to L1271-3), remuneration (L1271-4 and L1271-6)
Use of the simplified reporting and collection scheme
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