Return to Work (ARE) unemployment benefit for a private employee

Persons concerned

Unintentional deprivation of employment

To collect the WFA, you must be involuntarily deprived of employment for one of the following reasons:

• Dismissal for personal reason or economic reason or revocation
• Conventional Break
• No renewal of your CDD: titleContent
• Resignation considered legitimate (for example, to follow the person you live with as a couple).

Physical Fitness

You are physically fit for a job.

Location

You must reside in France.

Sign up for Pôle emploi

To perceive the ARE, you must be registered as an applicant or complete training listed in your Custom Job Access Project (PPAE). You must register within 12 months of the end of your employment contract. This period may be extended due to certain situations (e.g. sick leave).

In addition, you must perform positive and repeated actions (for example, daily job search) to get back to work or to start or resume a company.

Periods taken into account

Minimum period of work

In order to qualify for the AER, you must have a minimum working period, known as duration of membership 88 days or 610 hours, during Last 28 months.

Taking into account last job

Pôle emploi checks to see if you have worked a minimum period of time before you registered.

If this is not the case, Pôle emploi can check if the condition is met by a previous employment contract.

This previous employment contract must have ended within 12 months prior to your registration as a jobseeker.

You must not have received any allocations in relation to this contract.

Training Periods

Training periods, except those paid by Pôle emploi, are treated as working hours. Training periods may also be treated as days of parentage up to 2/3 of the number of days or hours of affiliation taken into account.

Work Contract Suspension Period

Periods of suspension of the employment contract (e.g. occupational illness, accident at work, maternity or paternity leave) shall be taken into account on the basis of one day of affiliation per day of suspension. Periods of suspension of the employment contract during which you have been engaged in a self-employed activity shall not be taken into account except in the following cases:

• Company Creation Leave
• Sabbatical
• Secure, voluntary mobility

Chargeable rights

In the event of a loss of business, you benefit from the resumption of your original rights until they are exhausted. This option is only valid if you have resumed a professional activity when you have not exhausted your rights.

You will not have rechargeable rights if you are a former beneficiary of a learning contract compensated by Pôle emploi for this contract.

If you have worked at least 150 hours (continuous or continuous) on the day your rights are exhausted, you will benefit from new rights with a new duration of compensation.

Example: You get the ARE for 600 days on a €25 per day. After 300 days, you return to a 50-day job. You will then continue to be compensated on a €25 (same amount) per day for 250 days (remaining).

Option for rechargeable rights

You can have an option right between your old and new rights.

The right of option allows you to choose the allowance resulting from the last period of activity without waiting for the exhaustion of unused allowances from a previous right to unemployment.

You must have reworked at least 4 months. In addition, your daily allowance must not exceed €20 or you receive a new daily allowance, due to the last periods of employment, which is at least higher 30% to that of the remainder

You have 21 days to write to Pôle emploi. Once you have made your choice, you will not be able to reverse your decision.

If you exercise your right of option, you receive your allowance from your last employment period from the day of your application.

Amount of the ARE

Estimate unemployment benefits

Gross

The daily gross amount of the AER shall include:

• a fixed part equal to €12.47,
• a variable part, equal to 40,4% of reference daily wage (SJR)

This sum may not be less than 57% and greater than 75% SJR

You can use the Pôle emploi simulator to find out the amount of your unemployment benefits.

ARE minimum amounts

The net amount of the ARE cannot be less than €30.42.

However, the minimum Return to Work Allowance Training (Aref) granted if you follow training, prescribed by Pôle emploi, is set to €21.78.

When your working time was less than the legal or conventional working time, the minimum allowance is reduced proportionately.

Contributions

A pick equal to 3% of the SJR, intended to finance supplementary pensions for beneficiaries of unemployment insurance, shall be paid out of the gross amount of the daily allowance. This levy shall not have the effect of reducing the amount of the daily allowance below €30.42.

The ARE is also subject to a generalised social contribution (CSG) and a contribution to the repayment of social debt (CRDS).

However, such contributions may be reduced or eliminated:

• if the gross amount of the AER is less than the amount of the Daily Sum, or €57,
• or if the CSG and CRDS levy leads to the net amount of the AER being reduced below the daily minimum.

Timeout

The ARE cannot be paid until the end of a waiting time, set at 7 days.

However, this waiting period does not apply if it has already been applied in the previous 12 months.

It starts at the end of the compensation deferrals (when applicable to you), if the conditions for the award of the AER are met on that date.

Otherwise, it starts from the date on which these conditions are met.

Paid Leave Compensation Deferred

If you received compensatory allowance, the ARE is paid after a time limit called compensation deferral.

This difference is determined by dividing the amount of this compensation by your reference daily wage. The result is the number of days of delay. If the result is not an integer, it is rounded to the higher integer.

For example, if you received a vacation pay offset from €570, and your reference daily wage is set at €100, the calculation is as follows: 570/100 = 5.7, reduced to 6 days of delay of compensation.

Specific compensation deferral

When you receive severance benefits in addition to the statutory benefits, a specific compensation deferral is applied to these amounts. This specific differential is applicable, for example:

• the share of the conventional termination indemnity or the conventional termination indemnity that exceeds the amount of the statutory termination indemnity
• the additional redundancy allowance supralegal,
• compensation for non-compete clauses

This deferral corresponds to a number of days obtained by dividing the amount of the allowance taken into account by 94.4. The result is rounded to the top integer (if the result is not an integer).

For example, if you received (in addition to the statutory termination allowance) a supralegal compensation of €10 000 following the breach of your contract, the specific compensation delay is determined as follows: 10 000/94,4 = 106 days. To these 106 days are added the 7 days of waiting time. Your compensation will start after 113 days.

Payment of the ARE

The monthly amount of the allowances shall be equal to the daily amount of the AER multiplied by the number of days of the month concerned.

The allowances are paid each month due according to updating your situation (for example, early November for the October allocation).

They are paid by:

• Pôle emploi if you were a private sector employee
• by the administration if you were a public official (unless agreed with Pôle emploi)

Payment depends on what you report every month: return to work, training, illness, etc.

You can request advances and prepayments under certain conditions.

Length of payment of the AER

The length of time the Return to Work Allowance (RTA) is paid depends on the minimum period of work prior to your enrolment for the last 28 months. It's called the duration of membership.

If you are a part-time private sector employee (unemployment), you can partial activity allowance for a maximum of 182 days.

However, if the suspension of the company's activity is due to a disaster or a natural disaster, this period may be extended until it is resumed.

Rollup with Activity Revenue

If you are engaged in a business while still reporting that you are looking for a job, you can combine your Return to Work (RTA) benefit with your employment income. The conditions of this accumulation vary depending on whether you are engaged in an activity as an employed or self-employed person.

End of rights

Termination

Payment of the ARE will stop if you are in one of the following situations:

• You resume a professional activity, whether employed or not, in France or abroad, unless authorised by Pôle emploi to accumulate the ARE with an income of activity
• You perceive Help with recovery or company creation
• You perceive daily allowances of Social Security
• You see the child education shared benefit (Prepare)
• You perceive Daily Parental Attendance Allowance (AJPP)
• You have concluded civil service contract
• You meet the conditions for a full-rate pension or reach the working age limit
• You no longer live in France
• You have made an incorrect or misleading statement resulting in the unjustified payment of unemployment benefits

Specific Solidarity Allowance (SSA)

If your rights end, you may, under certain conditions, specific solidarity allowance (ASS)).

If you are not eligible for the SSA, for a reason other than the resource condition, you can claim a lump sum payment equal to 27 times the amount of the fixed portion of the SSA, either €337.

Persons concerned

Unintentional deprivation of employment

To collect the WFA, you must be involuntarily deprived of a job. Termination of your employment contract must result from one of the following situations:

• Dismissal for personal reason or economic reason or revocation
• Conventional Break
• No renewal of your CDD: titleContent
• Resignation considered legitimate (for example, to follow the person you live with as a couple)

Age conditions

You cannot collect the ARE if you have reached minimum legal retirement ageand you meet the conditions for quarters or age of entitlement to full-rate pension.

Physical Fitness

You are physically fit for a job.

Location

You must reside in France.

Sign up for Pôle emploi

To perceive the ARE, you must be registered as an applicant or complete training listed in your Custom Job Access Project (PPAE). You must register within 12 months of the end of your employment contract. This period may be extended due to certain situations (e.g. sick leave).

In addition, you must perform positive and repeated actions (for example, daily job search) to get back to work or to start or resume a company.

Periods taken into account

Minimum period of work

In order to qualify for the AER, you must have a minimum working period, known as duration of membership 88 days or 610 hours of work, during Last 36 months.

Taking into account last job

Pôle emploi checks to see if you have worked a minimum period of time before you registered.

If this is not the case, Pôle emploi can check if the condition is met by a previous employment contract.

This previous employment contract must have ended within 12 months prior to your registration as a jobseeker.

You must not have received any allocations in relation to this contract.

Training Periods

Training periods, except those paid by Pôle emploi, are treated as working hours. Training periods may also be treated as days of parentage up to 2/3 of the number of days or hours of affiliation taken into account.

Work Contract Suspension Period

Periods of suspension of the employment contract (e.g. occupational illness, accident at work, maternity or paternity leave) shall be taken into account on the basis of one day of affiliation per day of suspension. Periods of suspension of the employment contract during which you have been engaged in a self-employed activity shall not be taken into account except in the following cases:

• Company Creation Leave
• Sabbatical
• Secure, voluntary mobility

Chargeable rights

In the event of a loss of business, you benefit from the resumption of your original rights until they are exhausted. This option is only valid if you have resumed a professional activity when you have not exhausted your rights.

You will not have rechargeable rights if you are a former beneficiary of a learning contract compensated by Pôle emploi for this contract.

If you have worked at least 150 hours (continuous or continuous) on the day your rights are exhausted, you will benefit from new rights with a new duration of compensation.

Example: You get the ARE for 600 days on a €25 per day. After 300 days, you return to a 50-day job. You will then continue to be compensated on a €25 (same amount) per day for 250 days (remaining).

Option for rechargeable rights

You can have an option right between your old and new rights.

The right of option allows you to choose the allowance resulting from the last period of activity without waiting for the exhaustion of unused allowances from a previous right to unemployment.

You must have reworked at least 4 months. In addition, your daily allowance must not exceed €20 or you receive a new daily allowance, due to the last periods of employment, which is at least higher 30% to that of the remainder

You have 21 days to write to Pôle emploi. Once you have made your choice, you will not be able to reverse your decision.

If you exercise your right of option, you receive your allowance from your last employment period from the day of your application.

Amount of the ARE

Estimate unemployment benefits

Gross

The daily gross amount of the AER shall include:

• a fixed part equal to €12.47,
• a variable part, equal to 40,4% of reference daily wage (SJR)

This sum may not be less than 57% and greater than 75% of the reference daily wage.

You can use the Pôle emploi simulator to find out the amount of your unemployment benefits.

ARE minimum amounts

The net amount of the ARE cannot be less than €30.42.

However, the minimum Return to Work Allowance Training (Aref) granted if you follow training, prescribed by Pôle emploi, is set to €21.78.

When your working time was less than the legal or conventional working time, the minimum allowance is reduced proportionately.

Contributions

A pick equal to 3% of the SJR, intended to finance supplementary pensions for beneficiaries of unemployment insurance, shall be paid out of the gross amount of the daily allowance. This levy shall not have the effect of reducing the amount of the daily allowance below €30.42.

The ARE is also subject to a generalised social contribution (CSG) and a contribution to the repayment of social debt (CRDS).

However, such contributions may be reduced or eliminated in any of the following situations:

• The gross amount of the AER is less than the amount of the Daily Sum, or €57
• The CSG and CRDS levy leads to a decrease in the net amount of the AER below the Daily Average

Length of payment of the AER

If you are a part-time private sector employee (unemployment), beneficiary of the AER, the period of payment of the allowance shall be set at a maximum of 182 days.

However, if the suspension of the company's activity is due to a disaster or a natural disaster, this period may be extended until it is resumed.

Timeout

The ARE cannot be paid until the end of a waiting time, set at 7 days.

However, this waiting period does not apply if it has already been applied in the previous 12 months.

It starts at the end of the compensation deferrals (when applicable to you), if the conditions for the award of the AER are met on that date. Otherwise, it starts from the date on which these conditions are met.

Paid Leave Compensation Deferred

If you received compensatory allowance, the ARE is paid after a time limit called compensation deferral.

This difference is determined by dividing the amount of this compensation by your reference daily wage. The result is the number of days of delay. If the result is not an integer, it is rounded to the higher integer.

For example, if you received a vacation pay offset from €570, and your reference daily wage is set at €100, the calculation is as follows: 570/100 = 5.7, reduced to 6 days of delay of compensation.

Specific compensation deferral

When you receive severance benefits in addition to the statutory benefits, a specific compensation deferral is applied to these amounts. This specific differential applies, for example, to the following cases:

• Share of the conventional termination indemnity or the conventional termination indemnity that exceeds the amount of the statutory termination allowance
• Supplementary redundancy allowance supralegal,
• Compensation for non-competition clause

This deferral corresponds to a number of days obtained by dividing the amount of the allowance taken into account by 94.4. The result is rounded to the top integer (if the result is not an integer).

For example, if you received (in addition to the statutory termination allowance) a supralegal compensation of €10 000 following the breach of your contract, the specific compensation delay is determined as follows: 10 000/94,4 = 106 days. To these 106 days are added the 7 days of waiting time. Your compensation will start after 113 days.

Payment of the ARE

The monthly amount of the allowances shall be equal to the daily amount of the AER multiplied by the number of days of the month concerned.

Allowances are paid monthly due based on updating your situation (for example, early November for the October allocation).

They are paid by Pôle emploi if you were a private sector employee.

They are paid by the administration if you were a public official (except for an agreement with Pôle emploi).

Payment depends on what you report every month: return to work, training, illness, etc.

You can request advances and prepayments under certain conditions.

Rollup with Activity Revenue

If you are engaged in a business while still reporting that you are looking for a job, you can combine your Return to Work (RTA) benefit with your employment income. The conditions of this accumulation vary depending on whether you are engaged in an activity as an employed or self-employed person.

End of rights

Termination

Payment of the ARE will stop if you are in one of the following situations:

• You resume a professional activity, whether employed or not, in France or abroad, unless authorised by Pôle emploi to accumulate the ARE with an income of activity
• You perceive Help with recovery or company creation
• You perceive daily allowances of Social Security
• You see the child education shared benefit (Prepare)
• You perceive Daily Parental Attendance Allowance (AJPP)
• You have concluded civil service contract
• You meet the conditions for a full-rate pension or reach the working age limit
• You no longer live in France
• You have made an incorrect or misleading statement resulting in the unjustified payment of unemployment benefits

Specific Solidarity Allowance (SSA)

If your rights end, you may, under certain conditions, specific solidarity allowance (ASS)).

If you are not eligible for the SSA, for a reason other than the resource condition, you can claim a lump sum payment equal to 27 times the amount of the fixed portion of the SSA, either €337.