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

Verified 01 May 2023 - Legal and Administrative Information Directorate (Prime Minister)

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Are you receiving a personalized independent living allowance (AAL) or disability compensation benefit (DCH)? You can use these aids, subject to conditions, to pay a home care worker (in direct employment or through a service provider) or to compensate a family caregiver.

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

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

That person will then be employed as a home care worker and you become an individual employer.

Your steps to declare salaries to the Urssaf must be done through the Declarative Cesu.

You can also pay for a licensed home care service provider (association or company of personal services) through the Apa. In this case, because you pay an invoice to the claimant, you are not an individual employer.

FYI

if you do not collect the AAA or the PCH, and your resources allow you to do so, you can pay a personal care home help.

You can use the PCH to pay a live-in caregiver, pay a service provider or compensate a caregiver.

You can hire an employee directly, unless they are:

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

However, you can pay any member of your family, including the person you live with in a couple, if your health condition requires full support for most essential daily activities and a constant or near-constant presence.

By hiring the employee, you become an individual employer.

Your steps to declare salaries to the Urssaf must be done through the Declarative Cesu.

You employ the employee directly

The amount of the human aid for paying home help is €16.88 per hour.

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

You're using an agency

The amount of human aid is €18.57 per hour.

This amount shall be indexed to the pay scale provided for in the national collective agreement for individual employers and homeworkers.

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

The rate of the human aid to compensate the home care worker is €23.00 per hour.

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

This amount is indexed to the pay scale provided for in the Home Support Sector Agreement of 29 March 2002 on jobs and remuneration.

In this case, because you pay an invoice to the claimant, you are not an individual employer.

You can use the PCH to compensate a family caregiver who cannot be paid as a home care worker (e.g., a retired person or the person you live with as a couple).

The latter must not have any subordinate relationship 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 the Net hourly minimum for family jobs, or €4.39 the time or €6.59 if the family caregiver reduces or abandons his or her professional activity.

FYI

if you don't collect the AAA or the PCH, and your resources allow it, you can pay a personal care home help.