Question 14692 — French people abroad

Summary

Mr. Vincent Caure draws the attention of the Minister of Health, Families, Autonomy and People with Disabilities to the persistent difficulties encountered by French people established outside France when they seek to recover their registration number in the national directory of identification of natural persons (NIR), commonly called social security number, after a long period of expatriation. The right to protection Universal Sickness (PUMa), established by Law No. 2015-1702 of December 21, 2015 on the financing of social security for 2016, guarantees any person residing stably and regularly on French territory to cover their health costs, in application of Article L. 160-1 of the Social Security Code. In the event of returning from expatriation, form S1106 constitutes the normal route for reaffiliation with the primary health insurance fund (CPAM) of the place of residence, with, where applicable, a waiting period of three months for people without professional activity. However, many compatriots faced with returning to France after a long-term expatriation (ten, twenty, sometimes thirty years) encounter a prior difficulty: the impossibility of finding their social security number. No longer having in their possession or vital card, nor old pay slip, nor certificate of rights, they do not have any document allowing them to reconstruct their identifier. However, the NIR being unique and permanent, it exists in the national identity management system (SNGI) managed by the National Old Age Insurance Fund (CNAV). However, CPAMs are often unable to find it quickly, due to a lack of simplified query tools or procedures adapted to situations of prolonged expatriation. Some nationals are then directed towards first-time registration circuits, as if they had never been affiliated, which considerably lengthens the delays and sometimes generates the allocation of a provisional number, a source of later complications. Others, still residing abroad, seek to anticipate their return or to assert retirement rights for contribution periods in France, but find it physically impossible to contact an organization which conditions any procedure on the production of a NIR which they no longer possess. This situation is all the more detrimental as the NIR conditions all administrative procedures upon return: reaffiliation with health insurance, registration with France Travail, liquidation of retirement rights with the CNAV, affiliation with the family allowance fund, etc. The absence of a number simultaneously blocks all of these procedures and places those concerned in a vicious circle where each organization demands the production of a NIR that the other is supposed to provide. He asks what measures the Government plans to take to simplify the procedure for recovering the NIR by French people returning from expatriation, in particular by facilitating access of CPAMs to the SNGI directory for searches based on civil status, by dematerializing the NIR search procedure for French nationals still residing abroad and by establishing a dedicated circuit within CPAMs for processing reaffiliation files for French people established outside France.

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