Employment & Labor

#2026-547France updates calculation rules for the adult disability allowance

🇫🇷France··Other·Medium Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

This decree changes how France calculates the adult disability allowance, especially for people who earn income through work in ESAT sheltered-work and support establishments. It removes and rewrites parts of the Social Security Code so that this type of work income is treated more clearly in the allowance calculation rules. The change affects adult disability allowance recipients with income from ESAT work, as well as the welfare bodies that calculate and pay the benefit. The new calculation rule will phase in from October to December 2026 depending on the month when the beneficiary’s right to the allowance was opened.

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Key Changes

  • Clarifies how income from ESAT sheltered-work establishments is included in adult disability allowance calculations.
  • Removes older wording that treated certain ESAT income cases separately.
  • Phases in the new calculation rule from October to December 2026 depending on the beneficiary’s allowance cycle.

Obligations

What this law requires

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When calculating adult disability allowance, do not apply the deleted condition that treated a beneficiary as falling under Article R. 821-4 solely because their activity income comes exclusively from work in an ESAT establishment or service.

French bodies responsible for calculating and paying adult disability allowance
For allowances due from the applicable phased implementation date in October, November, or December 2026 depending on the beneficiary’s allowance-opening month
operational
high

Include activity income from work performed in an ESAT establishment or service under Article L. 344-2 of the Social Action and Families Code when applying the revised resource-assessment rule in Article R. 821-4-1 of the Social Security Code.

French bodies responsible for calculating and paying adult disability allowance
From the phased implementation date applicable to the beneficiary
operational
high

Apply the revised Article R. 821-4-1 calculation rule to allowances due from 1 October 2026 for beneficiaries whose right to adult disability allowance was opened in January, April, July, or October.

French bodies responsible for calculating and paying adult disability allowance
Allowances due from 1 October 2026
operational
high

Apply the revised Article R. 821-4-1 calculation rule to allowances due from 1 November 2026 for beneficiaries whose right to adult disability allowance was opened in February, May, August, or November.

French bodies responsible for calculating and paying adult disability allowance
Allowances due from 1 November 2026
operational
high

Apply the revised Article R. 821-4-1 calculation rule to allowances due from 1 December 2026 for beneficiaries whose right to adult disability allowance was opened in March, June, September, or December.

French bodies responsible for calculating and paying adult disability allowance
Allowances due from 1 December 2026
operational

Affected Parties

Adult disability allowance beneficiaries with ESAT work incomeESAT sheltered-work and support establishments+1 more…

Tags

disability allowance,social security,ESAT…