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Minimum provision in old age (minimum vieillesse)
Relevant authority:

All old age pension schemes
Measure:

Social welfare legislation
Target group:

Personen im Alter von mindestens 65 Jahren (mindestens 60 Jahren im Falle von Arbeitsunfähigkeit) mit Einkommen unterhalb einer jährlich festgesetzen Grenze.
Target:

To guarantee financially underprivileged persons over 65 years of age (over 60 in the case of incapacity to work) a minimum income. (Thanks to the improved income situation of older/old women - who form a majority among the recipients - the number of recipients has been gradually decreasing.)
Detailed description:

For the past 35 years, the French state has guaranteed persons of the age of 65 and older (60 and older in the case of incapacity to work) a minimum income, the so-called "old age minimum"; the amount is laid down by the state and is increased annually on 1 January. The old age minimum consists of two parts

1. AVTS (Allocation aux Vieux Travailleurs Salariés) i.e., payments to old employees made up both of their own and of derived entitlements, the minimum being laid down by decrees.
2. The "supplementary old age assistance", the amount of which is dependent on the AVTS payment, for the two sums must together amount to the old age minimum. The supplementary old age assistance "is due to all recipients of any kind of financial benefit from a retirement fund (pensions, assistance, etc.) and to recipients of an invalidity pension".

Apart from the age and income conditions, the AVTS presupposes permanent residence in France.

The AVTS is financed by the state old age pension schemes, the supplementary old age assistance from the so-called Fonds de Solidarité Vieillesse (Old Age Solidarity Fund) which replaced the so-called Fonds National de Solidarité, FNS (National Solidarity Fund) in 1994; the latter was set up in 1956 with the aim of "promoting a general policy of income improvement for the protection of older/old people".
Source of information:

Danièle Prangère, 1998 : "L'allocation vieillesse supplémentaire au 1er janvier 1998. Allocataires et effectifs de 1956 à 1997, bénéficiaires au 31 décembre 1973" ("Supplementary Old Age Benefits on 1 January 1988. Providers from 1956 to 1997, recipients on 31 December 1973"), in DREES (Direction de la Recherche des Etudes de l'Evaluation et des Statistiques) Documents statistiques, Brochure n 317
Contact:

CNAV, 110 rue de Flandre, F 75019 Paris
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2001-04-25