Caregivers: in which cases does the support of a close relative count for retirement?

Caregivers' old-age insurance allows you to validate quarters for your basic retirement, during the periods during which you devote yourself to accompanying a child or an adult who is seriously ill or has a disability.

You can be covered by the old-age caregiver's insurance if you are in one of the following situations:

• you perceive the caregiver's daily allowance ;
• you benefit from a caregiver leave, not compensated;
• you perceive the daily allowance for parental presence ;
• you are caring for a child under 20 years of age with a disability and not admitted to boarding school, who has a disability rate of at least 80% (or a child under 20 years of age with a disability rate of between 50% and 79%, and for whom you benefit from the supplement to the child-rearing allowance for disabled children or disability compensation benefit) ;
• you are a caregiver of an adult with a disability, who has a disability rate of at least 80%. In addition, the departmental home for disabled people must have issued a notification authorizing your affiliation to the caregiver's old-age insurance.

What steps should be taken to be covered by the caregivers' old-age insurance?

The procedure for enrolling caregivers in old-age insurance depends on your situation:

• if you are a beneficiary of the parental presence allowance or the caregiver's daily allowance, the affiliation is automatic (you have no procedure to perform);
• if you are caring for a child with a disability, affiliation is automatic if your income is less than 63% of the Social Security ceiling ;
• if you are on unpaid caregiver leave, or if you are a caregiver of an adult with a disability, you must apply for affiliation with the family allowance fund or the agricultural social mutuality on which you depend.