Retirement for invalidity of official
Verified 01 April 2025 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
You may be admitted to retirement on the grounds of disability, whatever your age, if your state of health makes it impossible for you to continue your duties definitively and completely. We will provide you with detailed information on disability retirement.
The conditions of eligibility for retirement on the grounds of disability and the situation of a retired official on the grounds of disability differ according to whether the disability results from injuries or sickness contracted or aggravated in service (referred to as service-attributable disability) or from injuries or sickness not related to service (non-service-attributable disability).
Disability not attributable to service
You can be eligible for early retirement for disability if you meet the following 5 conditions:
- You are permanent official of the State or permanent territorial or hospital official affiliated to CNRACL: titleContent
- You're in thecomplete and permanent inability to continue your duties on account of non-service invalidity
- You have could not be reclassified in another body or framework of uses
- Your injury or illness have been contracted or worsened during period during which you acquired pension rights, i.e. for a period activity or secondment or during a period of up to 3 years of parental leave and/or availability to raise a child
- You haven't reached the age limit.
Early retirement on grounds of invalidity may take place:
- At your request
- Or automatically if your incapacity is the result of a permanent and stable illness or infirmity which cannot be treated, or at the end of a period of 12 months from your long-term sick leave (LSW) or long life (CLD).
Your retirement for disability is subject to the opinion of the medical advice.
Your disability rate is determined by a indicative scale.
You must file your disability pension application with your employer authority.
The request shall be made by means of a form issued by the SRE: titleContent if you are a State official (FPE) or by the CNRACL: titleContent if you are a territorial or hospital official (FPT / FPH).
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If you can benefit from additional pension insurance quarters or an increase in the amount of your pension as a parent and if the information does not already appear in your administrative file, you must provide the supporting documents for these children.
Your employer administration can advise you on this.
Your employer authority will forward your complete file to the SRE after making a determination on the reality of the disabilities invoked, the proof of their accountability to the service, the disability rate they result in and the permanent incapacity to perform your duties.
The file includes your application and relevant supporting documents, medical board minutes, medical documents provided to the medical board and any other documents necessary to establish your disability pension entitlement.
FPT / FPH
Only your employer administration can upload the disability pension application file to the CNRACL website.
If you can benefit from additional pension insurance quarters or an increase in the amount of your pension as a parent and if the information does not already appear in your administrative file, you must provide the supporting documents for these children.
Your employer administration can advise you on this.
Your employer administration forwards your complete file to the NACL after deciding on the reality of the disabilities invoked, the proof of their accountability to the service, the disability rate that they entail and the permanent incapacity to perform your duties.
The file includes your application and any relevant supporting documents, the minutes of the medical council, the medical documents provided to the medical council and any other documents necessary to establish your disability pension rights
The disability pension is calculated under the same conditions that the retirement pension of a competent official on the basis of the last gross index salary you held for at least 6 months prior to your retirement.
However, if you do not have the number of quarters of pension insurance required to qualify for a full-rate pension, none discount is not applied to your pension amount.
If your disability rate is at least 60%, the amount of your retirement pension may not be less than 50% the last gross index salary used to calculate your pension.
If your permanent disability is the result of the aggravation of pre-existing disabilities, the disability rate used is determined in relation to your remaining validity.
Your last gross index treatment is upgraded to 1er April of each year based on the annual consumer price index, excluding tobacco. If this index is less than one, it shall be increased to 1%.
If you receive an increase in your pension as a parent of at least 3 children, the increase is calculated on the basis of 50% the last gross index salary used to calculate your pension.
The disability pension is increased to 1er April of each year based on the annual consumer price index, excluding tobacco. If this index is less than one, it shall be increased to 1%.
If you have an obligation to appeal consistently to theassistance of a third person to perform the ordinary acts of life, you are entitled to a special increase.
The amount of this increase shall be fixed at €1,365.08. This amount is revalued at 1er April of each year based on the annual consumer price index, excluding tobacco.
When the liability for the service of your occupational disease is recognized by the medical council after your admission to retirement, you can also benefit from the special surcharge.
The special third-party assistance surcharge is granted at your requestno matter when you retire for disability.
You must make the request to your employer administration, which will forward it to the SRE: titleContent if you are a public official or CNRACL: titleContent if you are a territorial or hospital official.
The special increase shall be granted for 5 years.
At the end of the 5-year period, your entitlement to the special surcharge is reviewed.
It is then you:
- Either definitively granted if it is recognized that you are still obliged to use the assistance of a third party to perform the ordinary acts of life on an ongoing basis,
- Or, if not, deleted.
Afterwards, it can be recovered at any time following the same procedure from the date of your request if you justify being obliged again to resort constantly to the assistance of a third person to perform the ordinary acts of life.
This increase may not be combined with any other benefit for the same purpose paid by another pension fund. Thus:
- If you do not receive any benefits of the same nature, the amount of the special surcharge is equal to €1,365.08 per month.
- If you receive a benefit of the same nature less than €1,365.08, you can see the difference between €1,365.08 and the other benefit.
- If you receive a benefit of the same nature greater than or equal to €1,365.08, the special surcharge shall be suspended in its entirety.
Service-related disability
You may be eligible for early retirement for disability if you are in the following situation:
- You are permanent official of the State or permanent territorial or hospital official affiliated to CNRACL: titleContent
- You're in thecomplete and permanent inability to continue your duties disability resulting from injury or illness acquired or aggravated in service is referred to as service-related disability
- You have could not be reclassified in another body or framework of uses
- You haven't reached the age limit.
If the disabilities resulting from the performance of your duties result from an event outside the administrative premises, that event must be recorded in a report drawn up on the premises and at the time when it occurred.
In the absence of a report, that finding may be established by a act of notoriety erected:
- Before the judge of the court of justice or the mayor
- On the statement of the witnesses of the event or persons who have become aware of the event and its consequences.
The notorious deed drawn up by the judge or mayor reproduces the statements of witnesses or persons who had knowledge of the event.
This act must be confirmed by the attestations of your superiors.
Early retirement on grounds of invalidity may take place:
- At your request
- Or ex officio at the end of a period of 12 months from your long-term sick leave (LSW) or leave for temporary invalidity attributable to service (Citis).
Your retirement for disability is subject to the opinion of the medical advice.
Your disability rate is determined by a indicative scale.
You must file your disability pension application with your employer authority.
The request shall be made by means of a form issued by the SRE: titleContent if you are a State official (FPE) or by the CNRACL: titleContent if you are a territorial or hospital official (FPT / FPH).
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EPF
If you can benefit from additional pension insurance quarters or an increase in the amount of your pension as a parent and if the information does not already appear in your administrative file, you must provide the supporting documents for these children.
Your employer administration can advise you on this.
Your employer authority will forward your complete file to the SRE after making a determination on the reality of the disabilities invoked, the proof of their accountability to the service, the disability rate they result in and the permanent incapacity to perform your duties.
The file includes your application and relevant supporting documents, medical board minutes, medical documents provided to the medical board and any other documents necessary to establish your disability pension entitlement.
FPT / FPH
Only your employer administration can download on the CNRACL: titleContent the disability pension application file.
If you can benefit from additional pension insurance quarters or an increase in the amount of your pension as a parent and if the information does not already appear in your administrative file, you must provide the supporting documents for these children.
Your employer administration can advise you on this.
Your employer administration forwards your complete file to the NACL after deciding on the reality of the disabilities invoked, the proof of their accountability to the service, the disability rate that they entail and the permanent incapacity to perform your duties.
The file includes your application and any relevant supporting documents, the minutes of the medical council, the medical documents provided to the medical council and any other documents necessary to establish your disability pension rights
The disability pension is calculated under the same conditions that the retirement pension of a competent official on the basis of the last gross index salary you held for at least 6 months prior to your retirement.
However, if you do not have the number of quarters of pension insurance required to qualify for a full-rate pension, none discount is not applied to your pension amount.
If your disability rate is at least 60%, the amount of your retirement pension may not be less than 50% the last gross index salary used to calculate your pension.
If your permanent disability is the result of the aggravation of pre-existing disabilities, the disability rate used is determined in relation to your remaining validity.
Your last gross index treatment is upgraded to 1er April of each year based on the annual consumer price index, excluding tobacco. If this index is less than one, it shall be increased to 1%.
If you receive an increase in your pension as a parent of at least 3 children, the increase is calculated on the basis of 50% the last gross index salary used to calculate your pension.
The disability pension is increased to 1er April of each year based on the annual consumer price index, excluding tobacco. If this index is less than one, it shall be increased to 1%.
If you have an obligation to appeal consistently to theassistance of a third person to perform the ordinary acts of life, you are entitled to a special increase.
The amount of this increase shall be fixed at €1,365.08. This amount is revalued at 1er April of each year based on the annual consumer price index, excluding tobacco.
When the liability for the service of your occupational disease is recognized by the medical council after your admission to retirement, you can also benefit from the special surcharge.
The special third-party assistance surcharge is granted at your requestno matter when you retire for disability.
You must make the request to your employer administration, which will forward it to the SRE: titleContent if you are a public official or CNRACL: titleContent if you are a territorial or hospital official.
The special increase shall be granted for 5 years.
At the end of the 5-year period, your entitlement to the special surcharge is reviewed.
It is then you:
- Either definitively granted if it is recognized that you are still obliged to use the assistance of a third party to perform the ordinary acts of life on an ongoing basis,
- Or, if not, deleted.
Afterwards, it can be recovered at any time following the same procedure from the date of your request if you justify being obliged again to resort constantly to the assistance of a third person to perform the ordinary acts of life.
This increase may not be combined with any other benefit for the same purpose paid by another pension fund. Thus:
- If you do not receive any benefits of the same nature, the amount of the special surcharge is equal to €1,365.08 per month.
- If you receive a benefit of the same nature less than €1,365.08, you can see the difference between €1,365.08 and the other benefit.
- If you receive a benefit of the same nature greater than or equal to €1,365.08, the special surcharge shall be suspended in its entirety.
When you retire early for service-related disability, you are entitled to a lifetime disability pension that can be combined with your retirement pension.
The life invalidity pension shall be granted from the same date as the invalidity pension.
The total amount of your retirement pension and life annuity cannot exceed one maximum amount.
The pension increase granted if you are parent of at least 3 children shall not be taken into account in the calculation of this total amount. The special third-party assistance surcharge is not available either.
The maximum amount not to be exceeded is equal to the last gross index salary used to calculate your pension.
The amount of your last gross index salary used to calculate your pension is increased to 1er April of each year based on the annual consumer price index, excluding tobacco.
If the total amount of your retirement pension and your life annuity exceeds the limit, the amount of each benefit is reduced proportionately.
When liability for the service of your occupational disease is recognized by the medical council after your admission to retirement, you are also entitled to a life disability pension. In this case, the annuity is granted to you from the date of receipt of your application.
The amount of the life disability pension is equal to last gross index treatment used to calculate your pension multiplied by your disability.
If the amount of your last gross index treatment exceeds €4,206.96, the fraction of your last gross index treatment that exceeds €4,206.96 is only taken into account for one third of your disability pension.
If the amount of your last gross index treatment exceeds €42,069.60, the fraction of your last gross index treatment that exceeds €42,069.60 is not taken into account.
The lifetime disability pension is paid every month as the disability pension.
It is upgraded to 1er April of each year based on the annual consumer price index, excluding tobacco.
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