Does a former public servant who becomes disabled qualify for a disability pension?
Verified 23 January 2025 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
Yes, if you left temporarily or permanently the public service and become invalid, you can to receive, under certain conditions, a disability pension on behalf of SRE: titleContent if you were a government official or on behalf of the CNRACL: titleContent if you were a territorial or hospital official.
You must complete the 2 conditions following:
- Accomplish at least 15 years of services
- Having a disability or a incurable disease rendering any profession impossible.
This disability or illness must occur while you are exercising more function in the public service for which contributions are made to the SRE or to the NRACL. This can happen during an availability, after a resignation, removal from the management, etc.
There's no no age requirement to be completed in order to benefit from this disability pension.
You can also be admitted to early retirement for disability if your husbandwhether or not he is a civil servant, has disability or a incurable disease rendering any profession impossible. In this case, you must also have accomplished at least 15 years of services.
Please note
An agent contractual shall not benefit from this arrangement.
The application procedure Invalid disability or illness pension varies depending on your home public service (state - EPF, territorial - EPF, hospital - PHF):
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EPF
You must complete a form application for disability pension.
You must submit this form and the required supporting documents (the list of which is specified in the form) through your management authority.
Your application is first reviewed by your management authority.
In order to judge your or your spouse's permanent disability, you or your spouse are subject to an expert examination by one or more doctors approved by the administration.
The medical advice then review your application. If you meet the conditions, your managing authority will forward your request to the SRE: titleContent for decision.
This service sends you its decision to retire early for disability.
You finally get your pension. You must acknowledge receipt on a specific printout. You have to pass it on to the SRE. This triggers the payment of your retirement pension.
Please note
Feel free to contact your human resources department to complete this form.
FPT or FPH
Talk to your employer community who will take care of applying for a disability pension at the CNRACL: titleContent.
The impossibility of practicing any profession is studied by the medical advice.
Reminder
If you become disabled while working in the public service, you may be admitted to the early retirement for invalidity without conditions of service.
Article 24 - I - 4°: Conditions of duration of insurance (EPF)
Medical Council (EPF)
Article 25 - I - 4°: conditions of duration of insurance (FPT and FPH)