How are children taken into account for the public official's retirement?

Verified 01 January 2024 - Legal and Administrative Information Directorate (Prime Minister)

You're a public servant and you have children.

Your children are entitled to certain benefits when you retire.

Some benefits are stackable.

We will detail these different devices.

Please note

If you are contractual, your children are considered for your retirement under the same conditions as for a private-sector employee.

If you have had or adopted one or more children before 1er January 2004, every child entitles you to 4 additional quarters that are taken into account in calculating your retirement pension.

These quarters additional are called enhancement.

You are also entitled to this one-year subsidy for subsequent children if you have before 1er january 2004 and if you have them raised for at least 9 years before their 21st birthdaye birthday:

  • Children from a previous marriage of your spouse(s)
  • Children who have been the subject of a delegation of parental authority on your behalf or on behalf of your spouse
  • Children placed under your guardianship or your spouse, if the guardianship was accompanied by the effective and permanent custody of the child
  • Children taken into your home if you or your spouse can show that he or she has assumed effective and permanent care for them

To benefit from this one-year enhancement, you must have reduces or temporarily halts your business professional to care for the child under one of the following conditions:

  • Maternity leave or adoption leave
  • Parental Leave
  • Parental leave
  • Availability to raise a child under 12
  • Legal part-time to raise a child in 50% for a continuous period of at least 4 months
  • Legal part-time to raise a child in 60% for a continuous period of at least 5 months
  • Legal part-time to raise a child in 70% for a continuous period of at least 7 months

This benefit can be combined with the additional quarters granted if you gave birth during your studies before your recruitment to the public service.

Details and supporting documents shall be provided when applying for retirement.

If you have reduced or temporarily interrupted your activity for raising a child born or adopted from 1er january 2004However, these periods of reduced or interrupted activity are taken into account when calculating your pension insurance period.

Reminder

Your pension insurance term is counted in quarters. Your number of quarters (of pension insurance) is taken into account when you retire to determine whether or not you are entitled to a full-rate pension.

For example, if you are a sedentary class public servant born in 1963, you must have 170 quarters (42 years and 6 months) to qualify for a full rate pension.

The periods taken into account are the following:

  • Legal part-time for raising a child
  • Parental Leave
  • Parental leave
  • Availability to raise a child under 12

These periods shall be taken into account within the limits of maximum durations following:

Tableau - Maximum duration taken into account for pension insurance in the event of interruption of activity

Business interruption cases

Maximum unworked period that can be taken into account for the duration of pension insurance

Part-time at 50% to raise a child under 3 years of age

6 quarters (1 year 6 months)

Part-time at 60% to raise a child under 3 years of age

4.8 quarters (1 year, 2 months, 12 days)

Part-time at 70% to raise a child under 3 years of age

3.6 quarters (10 months, 24 days)

Part-time at 80% to raise a child under 3 years of age

2.4 quarters (7 months, 6 days)

Parental leave until the child is 3 years old (or 3 years from the adoption of a child under 3 years old)

12 quarters (3 years)

Parental leave for an adopted child after age 3

4 quarters (1 year)

Parental leave

6 quarters (1 year 6 months)

Availability to raise a child under 12

Birth or adoption of a single child : 12 quarters (3 years)

Birth or simultaneous adoption of 2 children : 24 quarters (6 years)

Birth or simultaneous adoption of 3 or more children : 32 quarters (8 years)

If these periods of reduction or interruption of activity are taken into account for no more than 6 months, this benefit may be cumulated with the additional quarters granted if your child was born from 2004 and after your recruitment to the public service.

Details and supporting documents shall be provided when applying for retirement.

You are entitled to 4 additional quarters which are taken into account in the calculation of your pension retirement pension if the following conditions are met:

  • You gave birth during your studies, before your recruitment into the public service
  • And your recruitment to the public service took place within 2 years of graduating from the competition

This benefit can be combined with the additional quarters granted if you reduced or interrupted your activity to raise children born, adopted or dependent on you before 1er January 2004.

Details and supporting documents shall be provided when applying for retirement.

You are entitled to 2 quarters of pension insurance additional for each of your children born from 1er January 2004 and after your recruitment to the Public Service.

These quarters are used to calculate your pension insurance term, which is used to determine whether or not you are entitled to a full-rate pension.

These quarters are also taken into account when calculating your retirement pension.

This increase in the duration of insurance may be cumulated with the taking into account of periods of reduction or interruption of activity in order to raise a child born or adopted from 1er January 2004 only if these downsizing or downsizing periods do not exceed 6 months.

Details and supporting documents shall be provided when applying for retirement.

Additional Pension Insurance Quarters

If you raised a disabled child under 20 with an invalidity of at least 80%, you are entitled to 1 supplementary pension insurance quarter per 30-month period of education.

You can benefit from Up to 4 quarters.

These quarters are used to calculate your pension insurance term, which is used to determine whether or not you are entitled to a full-rate pension.

These quarters are also taken into account when calculating your retirement pension.

Details and supporting documents shall be provided when applying for retirement.

Early retirement

You can retire early if you complete the 3 conditions following:

  • You are the parent of a living child, over one year of age, who has a disability equal or greater than 80%
  • You have completed 15 years of effective service
  • You interrupted or reduced your work to care for this child while he or she was at home charge

You can also benefit from early retirement for the following children if you have them raised for at least 9 years before their 21st birthdaye birthday:

  • Children from a previous marriage of your spouse(s)
  • Children who have been the subject of a delegation of parental authority on your behalf or on behalf of your spouse
  • Children placed under your guardianship or your spouse, if the guardianship was accompanied by the effective and permanent custody of the child
  • Children taken into your home if you or your spouse can show that he or she has assumed effective and permanent care for them

You must have reduces or temporarily halts your business professional to care for the child under one of the following conditions:

  • Maternity leave or adoption leave
  • Parental Leave
  • Parental leave
  • Availability to raise a child under 12
  • Legal part-time to raise a child in 50% for a continuous period of at least 4 months
  • Legal part-time to raise a child in 60% for a continuous period of at least 5 months
  • Legal part-time to raise a child in 70% for a continuous period of at least 7 months

Periods in which you have not worked or contributed to any pension scheme are considered as an interruption or reduction of activity.

Details and supporting documents shall be provided when applying for retirement.

If you have had at least 3 children, the amount of your retirement pension of the SRE: titleContent or the CNRACL: titleContent shall be increased by 10% for your first 3 children and 5% per additional child.

However, the amount of your superannuation increased cannot exceed the amount of your last index treatment which was used to calculate your retirement pension. This index treatment is upgraded to the same extent as pensions.

The children eligible for this pension increase are:

  • Your children born or adopted
  • Children from a previous marriage of your spouse
  • Children who have been the subject of a delegation of parental authority in your favor or in your spouse's favor
  • Children placed under your guardianship or your spouse, if the guardianship was accompanied by the effective and permanent custody of the child
  • Children taken into your home if you or your spouse can justify assuming the actual and permanent care

In order to benefit from the increase in your retirement pension, you must have raised these children for at least 9 years, before their 16th birthdaye birthday or before the age at which they stopped giving you entitle to family benefits (i.e. 20 years or 21 years maximum depending on the service). This condition shall not apply in the event of the death of the child.

If you meet the requirements at the time of retirement, you do not have to take any special steps to benefit from the increase in your retirement pension.

However, if, on the date of your retirement, you do not meet the conditions (9 years of education for the 3echild, or if the child is born or adopted after retirement), you must claim the increase in your pension when the condition of duration of education is met.

The application is made using the form below:

Application for an increase in the pension of children by a State official, a magistrate or a retired member of the military

You are entitled to an increase in your retirement pension, called parental benefit, if you have reached the age of 63 number of quarters required to be entitled to a full rate pension.

The parental allowance will thus be granted to civil servants born in 1965 or later for whom the minimum statutory retirement age is over 63.

You must also have at least 1 quarter of free pension insurance (i.e. no contribution in return) for one of the following reasons:

  • You have been on parental leave for at least 3 months
  • Or you reduced or interrupted your activity to raise one or more children born or adopted before 1er january 2004 or at your expense before 1er January 2004 for at least 9 years before their 21ste birthday
  • Or you gave birth during your studies, before your recruitment to the public service, and you were recruited to the public service within 2 years of graduating from the competition
  • Or you gave birth from the 1ster January 2004 and after your recruitment to the Public Service
  • Or you have raised a disabled child under the age of 20 with a disability equal to or greater than 80%

If you meet these 3 conditions, your retirement pension is increased by 1.25% for each quarter over the age of 63.

The parental benefit does not overlap with the overvaluation (granted when you retire beyond the minimum retirement age by having more quarters than the number of quarters required to qualify for a full-rate pension).

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