The foreigner benefits from the same rights as French citizens, regarding the unemployment service, training and allowance. He must be in a legal situation for work and stay if he wants to claim benefits.
If you are looking for a job, you can register at the ANPE
(Agence Nationale Pour l'Emploi ? National Unemployment Agency), which will
help and inform you.
You might be eligible for an allowance. You must register
with the ASSEDIC
(you will find the details in the pages
jaunes), or you can go, sometimes, to the town hall. You can register
the day you were made redundant and/or available for seeking a job. You must
provide proof of identity, passport or visa, and a justification of your address.
You will get a registry file at the Assedic and will return it completed and
with documents requested above attached. If everything is fine, you will receive
an invitation for an ANPE interview that will complete and end your registration.
By completing the Assedic form, you will apply at the same time for an allowance.
You must provide your Social
Security number and a certificate from your previous employment.
Coming from another country in EU/EES
It depends on your personal situation :
- You have worked before in a country of the EU/EES, but you did not get any unemployment benefits: Usually it is the last country where you worked that must pay your benefits. Ask for a form E-301 before to go to France. This form will be used to calculate your unemployment benefits if you are unemployed in France. However you must work at least 1 day in France in order to take in account your work in another European country. The calculation will be based on your last French salary if you worked at least 4 weeks ; in other cases they will use a reference salary.
- You were receiving an unemployement benefit in a country from EU/EES: If you have been registered as unemployed for at least 4 weeks and want to go to France, ask for a form E-303 to the organisation that pays your allowance and cancel your registration.
Then you must register as unemployed in France (ASSEDICS) within 7 days after your cancellation. You should then get the French unemployement benefits for a maximum of 3 months (afterwards you must go back to the original country for a new demand of benefits).
Who can claim for unemployment benefits?
You will get AUD (Allocations Uniques Dégressives) or ARE (Allocations au
Retour à l'Emploi) each month if you are eligible for the criteria defined
by the employement agency, and for a duration that depend on your age and
your contribution.
Each unemployement benefits applicant must fulfill several conditions:
- Having worked at least 6 months: being employed
under a short term contract (CDD) or permanent contract (CDI) in a company
linked to the UNEDIC for 6 months of the 22 months before your job ended.
- Not having voluntarily left the position: redundancy,
end of a short term contract, resignation allowed by the ASSEDIC, redundancy
for economic reason.
- Not being granted a full pension at retirement.
- And of course... you are looking for a job:
registration at the ASSEDIC, looking for a job effectively, accept the control
organised by the ASSEDIC or ANPE, with the PAP for example... People that
are at least 57 and a half, (or 55 , if they already have 160 quarters of
contribution) can avoid looking for job.
Calculation of unemploment benefit
Your benefits will be calculated regarding your previous wage, tax form and
your age.
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What is the PARE? With the PARE (Plan
d'Aide au Retour à l'Emploi) the ASSEDIC bind themselves to pay
benefits that do not decrease: the amount of the benefits
will be fixed to the level of the last allowance payed before you chose
the option. This amount will remain constant. You must meet the
conditions of the employement search according to the ANPE convention.
You will benefit from job search assistance thanks to the PAP (Projet
d'Action Personnalisé - Personal Action Plan). The PAP is established
after a full interview with the ANPE during the months that follow you
registration as an unemployed person.
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Start rate (or constant rate with the PARE) - general case
Reference is the level of you last wage (data 01/07/2002)
| You monthly salary |
Your daily allowance |
Social contributions |
| Less or equal to 969,60 € |
75 % of your salary under social contributions |
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| Between 969,60 € and 1061,88 € |
24,24 € per day |
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| Between 1061,88 € and 1754,12 € |
40,4 % of you daily salary + 9,94 € per day |
3 % of the previous salary (pension) |
| Between 1754,12 € and 9728 € |
57,4 % of the daily salary under the Assedic contributions |
11,62 % of the allowance (CSG / RDS / pension) if your allowance is
more than the SMIC (38 € @ 01/07/2002) |
Sliding scale of rate (Taux dégressif applied if you
didn't subscribe to the PARE)
- If you are less than 50 year old: That decrease is 15% or 17% per
scale of 6 months usually.
- If you are more than 50: That decrease is 8% or 17%
The payed allowance cannot be less than 24,24 € nor more than 75 % of you
daily salary of reference.
Duration
If your employer payed you holidays, or redundancy compensation more than
the legal minimum, your allowance is postponed (maximum 75 days).
The duration of your employment activity establishes the duration of your
allowance. The benefit is granted for periods of 6 months renewable within
the limitation of the maximum duration of the benefit.
| Duration of the employed activity |
Maximum benefit duration |
| 6 months of activity during the last 22 months |
7 months |
| 14 months of activity during the last 24 months |
23 months |
| 27 months of activity during the last 36 months |
36 months * |
| For people of 57 years old and more, 27 months of activity during the
last 36 months and 100 quarters of pension contribution |
42 months * |
* if you are more than 50 years old
Assedic control on your employment search are on going until you are 55.
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