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How to know your family quotient?

Publié le 01 septembre 2025 - Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

Registration for the school canteen or extracurricular activities, request to welcome your child in nursery... When you do this, you usually need to provide your family quotient, which is used to determine the amount of assistance you are entitled to. Where to find your family quotient? How is it established? Service-Public.fr inform you.

The family quotient established by the Family Allowance Fund (Caf) or the Mutualité sociale agricole (MSA) is an indicator of the level of your monthly resources. It takes into account the composition of your family, your professional and/or replacement income (such as unemployment benefits) and the family benefits that you perceive.

At the beginning of the school year, you are frequently asked for the allocation of certain aids, the calculation of the price you must pay for the school canteen, the nursery, etc.

How is it calculated?

Your family quotient depends on:

  • your household's taxable income excluding tax allowances;
  • the number of tax shares allocated to your household based on your family situation.

To calculate your family quotient, divide by 12 the annual taxable income of your household (excluding tax allowances). We add the amount of monthly family benefits that are paid to you. The result is divided by the number of shares allocated to you according to the composition of your household.

The number of shares for the calculation of the family quotient shall be allocated according to the following scale:

  • Couple or single person: 2 parts.
  • 1er dependent child: add 0.5 part.
  • 2e dependent child: add 0.5 part.
  • 3e dependent child: add 1 part.
  • From 4e child: add 0.5 parts per child.
  • Child with a disability: 0.5 share more.

Where to get your family quotient?

The family quotient is generated by the Family Allowance Fund or the Agricultural Social Mutuality.

  • If you are a recipient, to download your family quotient certificate you must go to the "My Account" area on the website of the Caf (section “My certificates”), or on the MSA online service “My family quotient”.
  • You are not or no longer a recipient? Communities or jurisdictions that ask you for your family quotient can check it if you send them your tax assessment. For applications made in 2025, this is your 2024 income tax notice for 2023.

FYI  

The online service quotient-familial.numerique.gouv.fr allows you to transmit via FranceConnect your identity data (surname, first names, date and place of birth, gender) and your CAF or MSA family quotient to your community. However, only certain communities allow the use of this service.

It is an information exchange device based on a free and secure form allowing:

  • retrieve your identity data, your family quotient Caf or MSA and the composition of your household from the authorities holding this information;
  • pass this information on to the community you depend on;
  • the local authority in question to use the information obtained to calculate the price corresponding to your situation (for example for the school canteen or nursery) or to determine the payment of specific aid.

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