Social security for a student - You have a social security number
Verified 21 mars 2022 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
You are a French, European student (EEE and Switzerland) or another nationality and you have a social security number? The procedure to follow depends on whether or not you are already attached to a social protection organization (examples: primary health insurance fund, Mutual social insurance for agriculture).
If you enroll for the first time in a higher education institution, you do not change the compulsory health insurance scheme (general scheme, MSA ...). In practice, the diet is often that of your parents. The same will be true the following year.
You are entitled to reimbursement of your care in case of illness or maternity.
To supplement health insurance reimbursements, you can join a health complementary. To do this, you have the choice between:
- A student union
- Or your parents' mutual
- Or any other complementary body.
Subject to resource conditions, you may be entitled to complementary health solidarity (C2S).
A simulator lets you know if you can benefit from C2S:
Estimate your rights to the complementary health solidarity
FYI
if you have annual emergency aid, you are entitled to C2S as an individual.
At 18, you become a “self-insured”.
In the months following your birthday, your CPAM: titleContent sends you a postal mail. This letter states that you now have care under your own social security number. It invites you to create your own ameli account.
You are applying for membership under the universal health protection (Puma).
The Puma guarantees to any person working or resident in France on a stable and regular basis a right to be paid for his health costs on a personal basis and on a continuous basis throughout life.
To do this, you fill out the cerfa form n°15763 by attaching the documents mentioned on the back.
Claiming entitlement to health insurance
You send this form and the requested documents to the CPAM: titleContent.