Civil service: individual guarantee of purchasing power (Gipa)

Verified 14 August 2023 - Legal and Administrative Information Directorate (Prime Minister)

You can receive an individual purchasing power guarantee (Gipa) if the change in your gross index salary is less, over 4 years, than that of the consumer price index. If you are eligible, the allowance is paid automatically with your salary. We present you with the information you need to know.

Individual purchasing power guarantee (Gipa) is intended to compensate for your loss of purchasing power if your remuneration has increased little in the last 4 years.

You can benefit from it if your index treatment is lower over a reference period of 4 years than that of the consumer price index.

A simulator allows you to determine if you are entitled to the Gipa and the amount you will receive:

Calculate the amount of the Individual Purchasing Power Guarantee (Gipa)

Warning  

You are not entitled to Gipa if you hold a grade whose index of the last step corresponds to an annual gross salary above €56,570.79

  • Official
  • Contractor in DTA: titleContent whose remuneration is calculated on the basis of an index
  • Contractor in CSD: titleContent continuously employed by the same public employer during the 4-year reference period and whose remuneration is calculated on the basis of an index

Gipa covers all agents in all categories (A, B and C).

Formula

The purchasing power guarantee allowance (G) shall be calculated on the basis of index raw treatments annual (TBA), as follows:

G = YTD of the starting year of the reference period x (1 + inflation over the reference period) - YTD of the ending year of the reference period.

The annual index gross salaries (ABR) taken into account are calculated as follows:

ABR = IM held at 31 December of the year of the beginning and the year of the end of the reference period x Annual value of the index point for each of these 2 years.

A part-time or non-full-time or incomplete member of staff during the 4 years may receive Gipa in proportion to the time worked:

G = YTD of the starting year of the reference period x (1 + inflation over the reference period) - YTD of the ending year of the reference period x working time quota on 31 December of the year of the end of the reference period.

FYI  

If you are entitled to a prior index treatment (e.g. after tenure) and are remunerated accordingly on the basis of an index different from the index you hold, the Gipa is calculated on the basis of the index that is used to calculate your remuneration.

Calculation elements

For the implementation of the allowance in 2023:

  • The reference period is set from 31 December 2018 to 31 December 2022
  • The annual value of the index point for 2018 was €56.2323
  • The annual value of the index point for 2022 was €57.2164
  • The inflation taken into account is 8.19%

Gipa is automatically paid to you if you meet the conditions to benefit from it.

You don't have to take any steps.

It is paid once a year in 1 installment at the end of the year when the factors to be taken into account for its calculation are known.

Calculate the amount of the Individual Purchasing Power Guarantee (Gipa)