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Seniors: financial assistance to pay for a home care worker
Verified 22 March 2022 - Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister), National Solidarity Fund for Autonomy (CNSA)
If you have difficulty doing certain everyday things, you can get financial help (called household help) to remunerate a person (called home help) who will come to your home to perform some household tasks (help with meals, cleaning, laundry, ...). Financial assistance shall be granted on the basis of age and resources. It can be allocated by your department or, failing that, by your pension fund. This aid cannot be combined with the Apa.
What applies to you ?
The tasks supported depend on your needs.
These are tasks performed by an authorized Help Desk, such as:
- Cleaning your home
- Maintenance of laundry
- Preparing meals on site
FYI
the aid for toileting is generally reserved for persons with a great loss of autonomy, who can therefore claim to the Apa.
Video: Activities for which you can be helped at home
Video: Finding a Home Help Service
Annie helps Jean-Paul, her disabled husband, especially for the toilet in the morning. She can no longer reconcile everything between helping her husband and his activities. Together, they decided to call on a home support service to allow Annie to continue doing her own activities.
Difficulty doing household chores
You may have difficulty performing the main household tasks. And a home health worker should help you stay at home.
Warning
if you meet the conditions for personalized home support allowance (Apa), you shall receive the aid provided for in this framework. They are not stackable with home care benefits.
Resource ceiling
If you live alone, you are entitled to the home help offered by your department if your monthly resources (excluding housing assistance) are less than €961.08 per month.
If you live as a couple, you are entitled to the home help offered by your department if your couple's monthly resources (excluding housing assistance) are less than €1,492.08 per month.
Age condition
You are entitled to the home help offered by your department:
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General case
From 65 years
You're deemed unfit for work
From 60 years
If you are retired
If you do not meet the age or resource requirementsHowever, if you are retired, ask your pension fund. Maybe she can give you a housekeeper.
The pension funds are authorized to determine for themselves the rules on the allocation of household assistance, the amounts paid and the duration of the home help.
Who shall I contact
Who shall I contact
To benefit from the home help offered by your department, the request must be made to your city hall (CCAS: titleContent).
General case
In Paris
Who shall I contact
The duration of the presence of the person working at your home is determined by your department. It varies according to your needs. However, it may not exceed 30 hours per month (or 48 hours if each member of the couple is entitled to this assistance).
The aid financed by the Department shall be paid:
- Either directly to the authorized home help service, provided that he is entitled to social assistance,
- Either yourself, if you prefer to call on an employee whom you employ yourself.
A financial contribution may be requested.
FYI
the home help offered by your department is an advance, repayable after death, on your estate. Reimbursement is only made if the estate exceeds €46,000.
Who can help me?
Find who can answer your questions in your region
- Code of Social Action and Families: Article L113-1Age condition
- Code of Social Action and Families: Articles R231-1 to R231-6Dependency condition, resource conditions, duration of intervention
- Code of Social Action and Families: Article R132-12Recovery from succession
- I need help at home (version "Easy to read and understand")National Solidarity Fund for Autonomy (CNSA)
- Pension Fund Support ("Easy to read and understand" version)National Solidarity Fund for Autonomy (CNSA)
- For the elderly.fr (loss of autonomy)National Solidarity Fund for Autonomy (CNSA)
- Site "To age well.fr" (elderly people)National old-age insurance fund