Question 11180 — pensions: general

Summary

Mr. Didier Le Gac draws the attention of the Minister of Solidarity and Health to the situation of parents of disabled children and their retirement rights. Indeed, in the context of future provisions on pensions, it seems urgent to examine the situation of these parents of disabled children who are forced to abandon all or part of their professional activity to look after them. Currently, as indicated in response to written question no. 1884 of the 15th legislature, the parent “is affiliated without means conditions to the old age insurance of parents at home (AVPF) the person or, for a couple, one or the other of its members, who is responsible for a child or a severely disabled adult”. It is specified that these people can work part-time but on the condition of being paid an income less than or equal to 63% of the annual social security ceiling. The ministry specifies in its response that the beneficiary of the daily parental presence allowance or caregiver leave can also be affiliated to the AVPF. In this case, old age insurance contributions are provided by the CNAF with retirement rights equivalent to those of an employee working 169 hours per month on the basis of the minimum wage, or only 1,299 euros net per month. Added to these retirement rights is “an insurance duration increase (MDA) for disabled children”. However, this increase only applies to socially insured parents who have raised a severely disabled child. If, since Law No. 2014-40 of January 20, 2014 guaranteeing the future and justice of the pension system, the pension rights of an insured person who interrupts their activity to care for a severely disabled relative are more dependent on their spouse's income, a lot of dissatisfaction remains. While an ambitious reform of the pension system must be examined soon, a reform which will notably aim to clarify and simplify everyone's rights, parents of disabled children, whatever the degree and nature of the latter's disability, consider themselves wronged and victims, in a way, of a "double punishment". Often obliged to cease or interrupt their professional activity and, in any case, by putting it in the background - which is not without repercussions on its development and on the income they derive from this activity - they must, in addition, be granted retirement rights calculated at a minimum. In addition, the provisions contained in the 2014 pension reform only apply in the event of severe disability. the child. This forgets that, in certain areas, without a place in a reception structure close to the parental home, a disability considered “milder” will in reality be experienced as a severe disability. Furthermore, the texts only mention the duration of the parent's presence with their disabled child calculated consecutively and not cumulatively. This method of calculation absolutely does not take into account the vagaries of life of parents and their disabled child as well as possible developments in the latter's disability, whether positive or negative, as well as pathologies related to or potentially amplified by the disability. The quality of life of these parents therefore suffers very severely and is directly correlated to the situation of their children. Furthermore, if these parents are often cited as an example due, in particular, to their real self-sacrifice, they do not benefit from the professional and social recognition to which they could largely claim due to all the material and moral difficulties they face. These parents also experience real difficulties in terms of professional reintegration after having supported their disabled child and having temporarily or permanently ceased their activity. No device is in fact proposed to facilitate their return to working life, starting with a simple skills assessment. These are the reasons why, questioned by parents of disabled children, he would like to know what avenues are being considered by the Government in terms of the right to retirement of parents of disabled children forced to interrupt their professional activity - whatever the modalities, durations or frequencies of these interruptions - from the point of view of the equivalences in quarters contributed and for everything concerning the revalued calculation of these contributions. He also asks him what projects are planned by his ministry to better support these parents in the context of their professional life, from the suspension of their activity motivated by the support of their child until the resumption of this activity or any other professional activity.

Machine translation from French. The official text remains authoritative.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

No documents linked.

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.