#2026-425France Sets Social Security Rules for Additional Birth Leave
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This decree adds the new additional birth leave to France’s social security rules. It sets how daily cash benefits are handled, which social security scheme pays them, and what eligibility conditions apply. Employees and insured parents will generally need to meet existing maternity benefit conditions and have six months of affiliation when the leave begins. The decree also sets the benefit calculation: 70% of the usual daily maternity benefit basis for the first month and 60% for a possible second month. It also allows pension credit for periods of 58 days of paid additional birth leave.
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Key Changes
- Adds additional birth leave to France’s social security benefit framework
- Requires six months of affiliation at the start of the leave to receive the daily allowance
- Sets the allowance at 70% of the usual maternity daily benefit basis for the first month and 60% for a possible second month
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What this law requires
Insured parents claiming the daily cash benefit for additional birth leave must satisfy the maternity cash-benefit eligibility conditions referenced in Article R. 313-3(a) and (b) as of the start date of the additional birth leave.
Insured parents claiming the daily cash benefit for additional birth leave must have at least six months of social security affiliation on the date the leave begins.
The social security scheme responsible for paying cash benefits during additional birth leave is the scheme with which the insured person was affiliated on the first day of the leave.
Social security schemes must calculate the additional birth leave daily benefit using the maternity daily benefit calculation basis, multiplied by 0.7 for the first month of leave.
If a second month of additional birth leave is paid, social security schemes must calculate the daily benefit using the maternity daily benefit calculation basis, multiplied by 0.6 for that second month.