Can APA or PCH be used to pay an employee or family caregiver?

Verified 01 July 2022 - Legal and Administrative Information Directorate (Prime Minister)

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Do you receive the Personalised Independence Allowance (APA) or the Disability Compensation Benefit (PCH)? You can use this assistance, subject to conditions, to pay for home help (direct employment or through a service provider) or to compensate a family.

The Apa can be used to pay for home care or to pay a service provider.

You can pay any person as a home help, unless that person is the person you live with as a couple.

This person will then be employed as a home care worker and you become a private employer.

Your wage declaration process at the Urssaf must be carried out by means of Declarative.

You can also pay for a licenced home support service (association or personal service company) through the Apa. In this case, since you are paying an invoice to the claimant, you are not an individual employer.

FYI

If you do not receive the APA or PCH, and your resources allow you to do so, you can pay a home support for personal services.

You can use PCH to pay for home care or to pay a service provider or to compensate a family caregiver.

You can hire an employee directly, unless the employee is:

Person you live with as a couple
Your father or mother
One of your children
Retirement
Person engaged in full-time professional activity

However, you can pay any member of your family, including the person with whom you live as a couple, if your health condition requires total help for most essential acts of daily life and a constant or quasi-constant presence.

By hiring the employee, you become a private employer.

Your wage declaration process at the Urssaf must be carried out by means of Declarative.

You directly employ the employee

The amount of human aid to pay for home care is €15.74 per hour.

This amount may vary depending on the care provided to the employer with a disability.

You use an agent

The amount human aid is €17.31 per hour.

This amount is indexed to the pay scale provided for in the National Collective Agreement for Individual Employers and Home Employment.

Yes, you can also pay for a licenced home care service (association or company of personal services) through PCH.

The rate of the human aid to pay for the home help is €22.00 per hour.

This rate may vary depending on the agreement between the department and this home help service.

This amount is indexed to the salary scale provided for in the Home Aid Branch Agreement of 29 March 2002 on Jobs and Remuneration.

In this case, since you are paying an invoice to the claimant, you are not an individual employer.

You can use the PCH to compensate a family caregiver who cannot be compensated for home care (for example: a retired person or person you live with as a couple).

This should not have subordination link with the disabled person.

This compensation is a sum of money and not a salary.

Its amount shall be calculated on the basis of 50 % of Net hourly minimum applicable to family jobseither €4.24 time or €6.36 if the family caregiver reduces or abandons their professional activity.

FYI

if you do not collect the APA or PCH, and your resources allow you to do so, you can pay a home support for personal services.