What resources are taken into account for the calculation of RSA entitlements?
Verified 18 April 2025 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
The amount of the RSA: titleContent is calculated based on your resources and of the members of your hearth.
The resources taken into account are:
- Income from employment (wages, bonuses, overtime, remuneration by Cesu pre-financed, severance pay, compensatory allowance for paid leave, compensatory period of notice, etc.)
- Income from self-employment
- Volunteer allowance in some cases
- Per diem of motherhood, fatherhood, adoption
- Per diem of disease, accident at work, occupational disease
- Short-time work allowances
- Unemployment benefits (return-to-work allowance, occupational security allowance)
- Retirement pension
- Annuities and capital paid in the event of death
- Maintenance and compensatory benefits
- Daily support allowance for a person at the end of life
- Compensation paid to victims of asbestos
- Exceptional resources (sale of a house, sale of a building, sale of land, inheritance, winnings at games, etc.)
- Invested capital (real non-income-producing assets are considered to be notionally producing an annual income equal to 3% their amount (e.g. life insurance contract). However, booklet A is not affected by the 3% : you only have to declare the interest earned annually. Amounts on current accounts are not included in the calculation of the SSA.
- Some family benefits (for example: family allowances, family supplement, family support allowance)
- Disabled Adult Allowance (DAA)
- Supplementary Disability Allowance (SIA)
- Monthly lump-sum business resumption premium
- Rents of a rented dwelling or building
- Rental value of a dwelling, building, premises or unleased land
- Social Assistance for Children as a Trusted Third Party
Please note
The net social amount shall be taken into account in determining the lump sum amount of the SSA.
These resources are differently taken into account according to your personal situation.
You must verify your quarterly pre-filled resource return, validate it and, if necessary, complete it with your other resources collected over the period (child support for example).
If necessary, you can contact your Caf: titleContent or the MSA: titleContent if you're under the farm plan.
Caf
You can obtain an estimate of your rights using a simulator:
Estimate your right to the RSA (Caf)
You can inquire with your Cof:
Conditions for the award of the RSA
Determination of resources
Non-income-producing goods
Non-income-producing goods: Article L132-1
Calculation of the SSA for self-employed persons
Taking account of livret A and life insurance
Simulator