Question 12677 — veterans and victims of war

Summary

Mr. Christophe Proença draws the attention of the Minister of the Armed Forces and Veterans to the posthumous attribution of the combatant's card and the tax consequences for the widows of veterans. The combatant's card, the allocation of which is provided for by the code of military disability pensions and war victims, gives access to various rights, in particular, from the age of 74, to an additional half-share of the quotient family for the calculation of income tax for its holder. This half-share is also recognized for widows or widowers of veterans, provided that the deceased spouse was able to benefit from it for at least one year, which assumes that he or she has reached the age required for the attribution of the fighter's card or the fighter's pension before his death. However, in many cases, soldiers who have fully fulfilled the conditions giving entitlement to the fighter's card have not requested it during their lifetime or have died before reaching the age required for allocation of the half tax share. As a result, their widows or widowers find themselves deprived of this advantage, even though the military record and professional career attest to their spouse's acquired right. This situation has been highlighted on several occasions by parliamentarians, notably in terms of tax injustice towards the widows of veterans who died before the age of 65, excluded from the system despite their status as nationals of the National Office for Veterans and War Victims. Furthermore, according to estimates from parliamentary work, as of January 1, 2023, around 870,000 people benefited from the combatant's card, including nearly 200,000 veterans of external operations under the age of 65. years, and the ONAC-VG (National Office for Combatants and Victims of War) provided care for approximately 730,000 widows of all ages, of whom 673,000 were over 74 at that date. Of these numbers, the probability that a man dies between the ages of 60 and 65 leads to an estimate of a certain number of widows potentially affected by an extension of the right. In this context, he wishes to know the Government's intentions to allow the posthumous attribution of the combatant's card to soldiers who died before the age of 65 or who did not formally request the card during their lifetime.

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