Commitment to civic service
Verified 30 January 2026 - Public Service / Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
Solidarity, culture, environment..., civic service allows you to exercise a mission of general interest from 6 months to 1 year in a public or private organization. You must be between the ages of 16 and 30. You're getting compensation. We tell you the information you need to know depending on whether you are an adult or a minor.
What applies to you ?
Major
These are missions of general interest carried out in one of the 10 priority areas identified for the Nation:
- Solidarity (elderly, disabled...)
- Health
- Education for all
- Culture and leisure
- Sport
- Environment
- Memory and citizenship
- International development and humanitarian action
- Emergency crisis response
- European citizenship.
Actions of a religious or political nature are excluded.
The mission can be carried out in France, Europe and worldwide, in a private non-profit organization, a public institution or a local authority.
The commitment to civic service shall take place over a continuous period of 6 months to 1 year.
As a volunteer, you can only do one civic service.
Civic service can be combined, either before or after the mission, with other forms of engagement, including:
- European Solidarity Corps
- Volunteer associations (over 25 years of age, 6 to 24 months)
- International Volunteering in company (VIE)
- International Volunteering in Administration (VIA)
- Volunteer Firefighter (VPD)
- Agricultural volunteering (persons aged 18 to 35, for a maximum period of 6 months).
The organization hosting you must be approved by the Civic Service Agency.
This may include any of the following:
- State administration or public authority (e.g. a town hall)
- Public institution (e.g. school, museum, France Travail agency)
- Organization of dwellings for moderate rent
- French non-profit organization (e.g. association, foundation, cooperative, NGOS: titleContent)
- An international organization headquartered in France.
Please note
Commitment to civic service cannot not be carried out in a cultural association, political, a congregation or a company foundation.
To volunteer for civic service, you must meet several conditions.
Age
Age depends on your situation:
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General case
You can commit up to watch your 26e birthday.
Recognized person with a disability
You can commit up to watch your 31e birthday.
You must be in one of the following cases:
- Disability Compensation Benefit
- Allowance for adults with disabilities
- Child-rearing allowance for disabled children
- Notification by the MDPH: titleContent
- Personalized schooling project
- Recognition of Disabled Worker (RQTH)
- Mobility Inclusion Card invalidity
- Invalidity pension
- Disability rate.
Nationality or residence in France
You must meet conditions that depend on your nationality:
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French
The civic service is open to you if you are a French national.
European
The civic service is open to you if you are a citizen of one of the following countries:
- Member country of the European Economic Area (EEA)
- Member country of the European Union
- Switzerland.
Other nationality
You can commit to civic service if you meet the following 2 conditions:
- Reside in France for more than 1 year
- Possess one of the residence permits required.
In some cases, access is open even without a stay of more than a year in France.
Diploma
The civic service is open without qualification requirements.
Only your motivation matters.
You can combine your civic service mission with another activity depending on your situation:
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Employee
You can accomplish your civic service mission while being employee.
However, the commitment to civic service is sustained.
It is most often held full-time (at least 24 hours per week).
If you live up to your civic service commitment, you can do something else.
However, you must comply with the following conditions:
- The schedules of your mission and your salaried activity must be compatible. You cannot accumulate more than 48 hours per week.
- You must work outside the organization where you perform your civic service.
- You must inform your guardian and employer in writing of your 2 activities.
Public servant
You must request prior authorization.
The mission of civic service must not encroach on your work.
You cannot perform civic service in an organization where you are (or have been) an agent.
Student
You can accomplish your civic service mission while being a student if you are able to reconcile your different schedules.
You can ask your higher education institution for an adjustment of your schedule.
You can interrupt your graduate studies to fulfill your civic service commitment as part of your gap period.
If your request for a break is accepted, you will continue to benefit from student status and will be automatically reintegrated into your curriculum upon your return.
Self-employed
You can accomplish your civic service mission while having the self-employed status (or micro-entrepreneur).
Jobseeker
You can remain enrolled in France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi) for the duration of your assignment.
You will be classified in the category 4, corresponding to unemployed persons and not immediately available.
Please note
If you sign a FIXED-TERM CONTRACT: titleContent of at least 6 months or one DTA: titleContent, you may terminate your civic service contract without notice. In all other cases, you must give one month's notice.
Trainee
You cannot sign an internship agreement at the same time as a civic service contract with the same organization.
Your host organization cannot change the content of your assignment to match an internship.
However, you can ask your higher education institution to validate this commitment period instead of an internship.
The activities carried out as part of your mission must allow you to acquire skills that are related to your training course.
The institution shall freely determine the methods and criteria for assessing such validation.
To search for a civic service engagement assignment, you can view the assignment offers online:
Search for a civic service mission
Please note
The advertisement shall indicate the accessibility of the mission site to persons with reduced mobility.
To apply, you can use the dedicated online service.
You must create your account on the online service.
Then, you can apply directly to the organizations offering missions.
Online Application for a Civic Service Commitment
You can also contact a local mission or the Youth Information Network.
You can apply for several assignments. But you will be able to perform a single civic service.
Mission
Your mission is the subject of a contract between the organization and you.
This contract must include the following elements:
- Duration of the mission
- Description of the mission and activities entrusted to you
- Weekly duration
- Place of performance of the mission (or places, if applicable)
- Identity of your tutor and tutoring conditions (pace of your exchange points, etc.)
- Method of payment of the subsistence benefit of €114.85 net.
Under certain conditions, your accredited host organization, private or public, may ask you to work with one or more non-accredited organizations. This must be specified in your contract.
You cannot work in private organizations whose activity is cult, political or trade union.
Your general interest missions are complementary to the activities entrusted to employees or public officials.
They cannot replace a job or an internship.
Health
A medical examination prior to the subscription of the contract is mandatory.
Your attending physician must establish a medical certificate indicating the absence of contraindications to the mission.
Please note
When registering or signing the contract, the host organization must inform you of the possibility of performing a free health examination. This examination is supported by the CPAM: titleContent.
The weekly duration depends on your situation:
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General case
Weekly duration must be understood between 24 hours and 48 hours, distributed to the maximum over 6 days.
The weekly duration is calculated on average over all the months of mission completed.
This allows a modulation of the number of hours completed per week.
Please note
You cannot complete all or part of your telework assignment. Contact with the public (schools, young people, seniors, etc.) is one of the foundations of civic service.
Person with a disability
The weekly duration must be between 24 hours and 48 hours, spread over a maximum of 6 days.
The weekly duration is calculated on average over all the months of mission completed.
This allows a modulation of the number of hours completed per week.
You can request a decrease in the weekly duration at less than 24 hours per week, depending on your situation.
FYI
You can benefit from accommodation and assistance to accomplish your mission.
The status of the young volunteer is specific. You are not an employee, intern or volunteer.
You don't get a salary, you get an indemnity.
This can sometimes be combined with another allowance.
You benefit from several benefits that depend on your situation:
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Metropolis
You benefit from the following allowances:
- Monthly allowance of €504.98 net
- Provision of a minimum amount of €114.85 net in kind or cash corresponding to food or transport costs.
Or a total compensation of €619.83.
In the event of a difficult social or financial situation, an additional €114.95 net can be paid to you if you meet any of the following conditions:
- Be a student beneficiary of a scholarship on social criteria
- To be entitled to RSA.
Your allowance is paid into your bank account.
FYI
The sums paid are exempt from income tax. The benefit corresponding to food or transport costs is exempt from social security contributions.
Overseas
French Guiana, Martinique, Guadeloupe
You benefit from the following allowances:
- Monthly allowance of €504.98 net
- Provision of a minimum amount of €114.85 net in kind or cash corresponding to food or transport costs.
In the event of a difficult social or financial situation, an additional €114.95 net can be paid if you meet any of the following conditions:
- Be a student beneficiary of a scholarship on social criteria
- To be entitled to RSA.
If you live in French Guiana, Martinique or Guadeloupe and you do your civic service in mainland France, you can benefit from an additional allowance (€504.98 net for a contract entered into on 9 March 2025).
FYI
The sums paid are exempt from income tax. The benefit corresponding to food or transport costs is exempt from social security contributions.
Meeting, Mayotte
You benefit from the following allowances:
- Monthly allowance of €504.98 net
- Provision of a minimum amount of €114.85 net in kind or cash corresponding to food or transport costs.
In the event of a difficult social or financial situation, an additional €114.95 net can be paid if you meet any of the following conditions:
- Be a student beneficiary of a scholarship on social criteria
- To be entitled to RSA.
If you live in Reunion or Mayotte, and you do your civic service in metropolitan France, you can benefit from an additional allowance (€757 net for a contract entered into on 9 March 2025).
FYI
The sums paid are exempt from income tax. The benefit corresponding to food or transport costs is exempt from social security contributions.
After signing your commitment, the Civic Service Agency will send you, by post, your volunteer card.
This card gives you access to same benefits that the student card.
It allows you to justify your volunteer status with third parties and to benefit from financial advantages negotiated with partners (for example, reduced-fare transport).
The map shall include the following information:
- Period of validity of the card (it corresponds to the duration of your commitment)
- Your first and last name
- Your signature.
The map is strictly personal.
In the event of a breach of your civic service commitment, you must give the card to the organization in which you are performing your mission.
Your host organization must register you for 2 mandatory trainings, including one in the first 3 months of your mission.
These courses are as follows:
- Training First aid Citizen (gestures that save)
- Training civic and citizen.
Civic and civic training lasts for a minimum of 2 days.
It covers topics of business and republican values (e.g. anti-discrimination, gender equality, democracy, sustainable development).
The content and conduct of these trainings are defined by the host organization, which may organize them internally or call on an external organization.
Please note
Your host organization can offer additional training.
During your engagement, you benefit from State-funded social protection covering the following risks:
- Disease
- Maternity
- Disability
- ₪.
The rules depend on your situation:
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You are already affiliated to the general social security system
You are affiliated to the general social security scheme, in particular if you are in one of the following situations:
- Private sector employee
- Self-employed
- Student.
You must send a copy of your employment contract to your health insurance fund to inform them of your change of situation.
You are not affiliated to the general social security system
You depend on another plan
You are dependent on a social security scheme other than the general scheme, for example MSA: titleContent.
Check with your current plan to find out what steps you can take to be affiliated to the general social security system.
You can also contact the health insurance fund on which you depend.
You don't have a social security number
You must apply for entitlement to health insurance.
You must submit the following documents:
- Form of application for the opening of rights to health insurance
- Copy of your contract of employment
- Copy of your identity document (of your residence permit if you are a foreigner).
For your health coverage, the civic service does not entitle you to a mutual insurance.
But you can benefit from the complementary health solidarity if you meet the conditions.
The civic service allows you to get basic pension rights.
But it does not allow you to acquire rights for the supplementary pension.
To go abroad, you must be sent by a French organization and hosted by a foreigners organization.
In addition to your employment contract, you must sign an agreement that binds you with these two organizations.
If your mission takes place abroad, additional costs can be added, especially for transport and accommodation on site.
In most cases, a significant part of the cost may be borne by you, even when the host organization makes its contribution.
Before signing your contract, it is strongly recommended to clarify the cost sharing between the approved organization and you, including for transport and accommodation.
Warning
For a stay of more than 3 months, you are not covered by French health insurance. Your sending organization must take out insurance to cover all your expenses related to care or a possible work accident, including a repatriation clause. Carefully check the content of the contract.
You are entitled to 2 days off per month.
The conditions for combining the civic service allowance with an allowance vary according to the scheme concerned:
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Return to work assistance allowance
During the duration of the mission, the payment of your unemployment benefits is suspended, but you remain registered with France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi).
You're changing categories in the classification of jobseekers.
You're classified in category D.
It corresponds to unemployed persons who are not immediately available.
Think about update your situation with France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi) before the mission begins.
You will avoid having to pay an overpayment to France Travail.
At the end of the mission, you must update your situation within 5 days.
The payment of your unemployment benefits resumes when your mission is over.
It has no impact on the amount of payments or the duration of payments.
FYI
If you break an employment contract to perform your civic service commitment, this breach is considered a legitimate resignation. You will regain your unemployment insurance benefits at the end of your employment.
You can contact France Travail by one of the following means:
- Online
- On site
- By phone.
In the event of a move, you must inform the France Travail agency of your new place of residence.
The agency takes care of the transfer of the file.
By phone
39.49
- To update your situation, report a change of situation, inform you of a payment: automated service 7 days a week, 24 hours a day - Free service + price call
- To be put in contact with an advisor to register, inquire, modify an appointment: service accessible at the times set by each agency France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi) - Free service + price call
From foreigner: + 33 1 77 86 39 49
By mail
Access via the contact form
FYI
If you break an employment contract to perform your civic service commitment, this breach is considered a legitimate resignation. You will regain your rights to unemployment insurance or your entitlements to the RSA at the end of your engagement.
Active solidarity income
Payments of the RSA or the activity bonus shall be suspended for the duration of the mission.
They resume at the end of this one.
You must report any changes to the Caf: titleContent or MSA: titleContent.
Family Allowance Fund (Caf) online
If you are at the expense of your parents within the meaning of family benefitsHowever, the voluntary allowance that you receive is not taken into account in the calculation of your parents' social assistance entitlements.
FYI
If you break an employment contract to perform your civic service commitment, this breach is considered a legitimate resignation. You will find your entitlements to the RSA at the end of your engagement.
Allowance for adults with disabilities
You can combine your civic service allowance with the adult disability allowance (ADA) if you meet one of the following conditions:
- Your mission is unfolding in France
- Your mission does not exceed 3 months abroad.
Student Grant
Civic service has no impact on the conditions for awarding a student scholarship, nor on its amount.
The civic service allowance is not taken into account when calculating your scholarship.
At the end of your civic service, your host organization and your guardian must establish with you a nominative balance sheet end of mission.
This assessment shall describe the following:
- Activities carried out
- Skills acquired.
You receive a certificate of civic service.
Minor
A youth 16 years of age or older may make a civic service commitment.
These are missions of general interest carried out in one of the 10 priority areas identified for the Nation:
- Solidarity (elderly, disabled...)
- Health
- Education for all
- Culture and leisure
- Sport
- Environment
- Memory and citizenship
- International development and humanitarian action
- Emergency crisis response
- European citizenship.
Actions of a religious or political nature are excluded.
The mission can be carried out in France, Europe and worldwide, in a private non-profit organization, a public institution or a local authority.
The tasks entrusted to you and the conditions of your support must be adapted to your age.
The hazardous or heavy work prohibited for young workers you are forbidden.
You must benefit from enhanced tutoring.
The commitment to civic service shall take place over a continuous period of 6 months to 1 year.
As a volunteer, you can only do one civic service.
Civic service can be combined, either before or after the mission, with other forms of engagement, including:
- European Solidarity Corps
- Volunteer associations (over 25 years of age, 6 to 24 months)
- International Volunteering in company (VIE)
- International Volunteering in Administration (VIA)
- Volunteer Firefighter (VPD)
- Agricultural volunteering (persons aged 18 to 35, for a maximum period of 6 months).
The organization hosting you must be approved by the Civic Service Agency.
This may include any of the following:
- State administration or public authority (e.g. a town hall)
- Public institution (e.g. school, museum, France Travail agency)
- Organization of dwellings for moderate rent
- French non-profit organization (e.g. association, foundation, cooperative, NGOS: titleContent)
- An international organization headquartered in France.
Please note
Commitment to civic service cannot not be carried out in a cultural association, political, a congregation or a company foundation.
To volunteer for civic service, you must meet several conditions.
Age
You can sign a civic service assignment if you are at least old 16 years.
Parental permission is required unless you are a emancipated minor.
Nationality or residence in France
You must meet conditions that depend on your nationality:
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French
The civic service is open to you if you are a French national.
European
The civic service is open to you if you are a citizen of a member country of the European Economic Area (EEA), the European Union and Switzerland.
Other nationality
You can commit to civic service if you meet the following 2 conditions:
- Reside in France for more than 1 year
- Possess one of the residence permits required.
In some cases, access is open even without a stay of more than a year in France.
Check to see if you meet the requirements:
Who shall I contact
For more information on this subject, you can contact Allô Service Public.
Attention: the service does not have access to users' personal files and therefore cannot provide information on their progress.
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The informants who answer you belong to the Ministry of the Interior.
Diploma
The civic service is open without qualification requirements.
Only your motivation matters.
You can combine your civic service mission with another activity depending on your situation:
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Employee
You can accomplish your civic service mission while being employee.
However, the commitment to civic service is sustained.
It is most often held full-time (at least 24 hours per week).
If you live up to your civic service commitment, you can do something else.
However, you must comply with the following conditions:
- The schedules of your mission and your salaried activity must be compatible. You cannot accumulate more than 48 hours per week.
- You must work outside the organization where you perform your civic service.
- You must inform your guardian and employer in writing of your 2 activities.
Public servant
You must request prior authorization.
The mission of civic service must not encroach on your work.
You cannot perform civic service in an organization where you are (or have been) an agent.
Student
You can accomplish your civic service mission while being a student if you are able to reconcile your different schedules.
You can ask your higher education institution for an adjustment of your schedule.
You can interrupt your graduate studies to fulfill your civic service commitment as part of your gap period.
If your request for a break is accepted, you will continue to benefit from student status and will be automatically reintegrated into your curriculum upon your return.
Self-employed
You can accomplish your civic service mission while having the self-employed status (or micro-entrepreneur).
Jobseeker
You can remain enrolled in France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi) for the duration of your assignment.
You will be classified in the category 4, corresponding to unemployed persons and not immediately available.
Please note
If you sign a FIXED-TERM CONTRACT: titleContent of at least 6 months or one DTA: titleContent, you may terminate your civic service contract without notice. In all other cases, you must give one month's notice.
Trainee
You cannot sign an internship agreement at the same time as a civic service contract with the same organization.
Your host organization cannot change the content of your assignment to match an internship.
However, you can ask your higher education institution to validate this commitment period instead of an internship.
The activities carried out as part of your mission must allow you to acquire skills that are related to your training course.
The institution shall freely determine the methods and criteria for assessing such validation.
To search for a civic service engagement assignment, you can view the assignment offers online:
Search for a civic service mission
Please note
The advertisement shall indicate the accessibility of the mission site to persons with reduced mobility.
To apply, you can use the dedicated online service.
You must create your account on the online service.
Then, you can apply directly to the organizations offering missions.
Online Application for a Civic Service Commitment
You can also contact a local mission or the Youth Information Network.
You can apply for several assignments. But you will be able to perform a single civic service.
Mission
Your mission is the subject of a contract between the organization and you.
This contract must include the following elements:
- Duration of the mission
- Description of the mission and activities entrusted to you
- Weekly duration
- Place of performance of the mission (or places, if applicable)
- Identity of your tutor and tutoring conditions (pace of your exchange points, etc.)
- Method of payment of the subsistence benefit of €114.85 net.
Under certain conditions, your accredited host organization, private or public, may ask you to work with one or more non-accredited organizations. This must be specified in your contract.
You cannot work in private organizations whose activity is cult, political or trade union.
Your general interest missions are complementary to the activities entrusted to employees or public officials.
They cannot replace a job or an internship.
Health
A medical examination prior to the subscription of the contract is mandatory.
Your attending physician must establish a medical certificate indicating the absence of contraindications to the mission.
Please note
When registering or signing the contract, the host organization must inform you of the possibility of performing a free health examination. This examination is supported by the CPAM: titleContent.
The status of the young volunteer is specific. You are not an employee, intern or volunteer.
You don't get a salary, you get an indemnity.
This can sometimes be combined with another allowance.
You benefit from several benefits that depend on your situation:
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Metropolis
You benefit from the following allowances:
- Monthly allowance of €504.98 net
- Provision of a minimum amount of €114.85 net in kind or cash corresponding to food or transport costs.
Or a total compensation of €619.83.
In the event of a difficult social or financial situation, an additional €114.95 net can be paid to you if you meet any of the following conditions:
- Be a student beneficiary of a scholarship on social criteria
- To be entitled to RSA.
Your allowance is paid into your bank account.
FYI
The sums paid are exempt from income tax. The benefit corresponding to food or transport costs is exempt from social security contributions.
Overseas
French Guiana, Martinique, Guadeloupe
You benefit from the following allowances:
- Monthly allowance of €504.98 net
- Provision of a minimum amount of €114.85 net in kind or cash corresponding to food or transport costs.
In the event of a difficult social or financial situation, an additional €114.95 net can be paid if you meet any of the following conditions:
- Be a student beneficiary of a scholarship on social criteria
- To be entitled to RSA.
If you live in French Guiana, Martinique or Guadeloupe and you do your civic service in mainland France, you can benefit from an additional allowance (€504.98 net for a contract entered into on 9 March 2025).
FYI
The sums paid are exempt from income tax. The benefit corresponding to food or transport costs is exempt from social security contributions.
Meeting, Mayotte
You benefit from the following allowances:
- Monthly allowance of €504.98 net
- Provision of a minimum amount of €114.85 net in kind or cash corresponding to food or transport costs.
In the event of a difficult social or financial situation, an additional €114.95 net can be paid if you meet any of the following conditions:
- Be a student beneficiary of a scholarship on social criteria
- To be entitled to RSA.
If you live in Reunion or Mayotte, and you do your civic service in metropolitan France, you can benefit from an additional allowance (€757 net for a contract entered into on 9 March 2025).
FYI
The sums paid are exempt from income tax. The benefit corresponding to food or transport costs is exempt from social security contributions.
After signing your commitment, the Civic Service Agency will send you, by post, your volunteer card.
This card gives you access to same benefits that the student card.
It allows you to justify your volunteer status with third parties and to benefit from financial advantages negotiated with partners (for example, reduced-fare transport).
The map shall include the following information:
- Period of validity of the card (it corresponds to the duration of your commitment)
- Your first and last name
- Your signature.
The map is strictly personal.
In the event of a breach of your civic service commitment, you must give the card to the organization in which you are performing your mission.
The weekly duration depends on your situation:
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General case
Weekly duration must be understood between 24 hours and 35 hours, distributed to the maximum on 5 days.
The weekly duration is calculated on average over all the months of mission completed.
This allows a modulation of the number of hours completed per week.
The duration daily of the mission is 7 hours at most.
If you are a minor, you cannot work during the following periods:
- Night (between 10 pm and 6 am)
- Public holidays.
Person with a disability
Weekly duration must be understood between 24 hours and 35 hours, distributed to the maximum on 5 days.
The weekly duration is calculated on average over all the months of mission completed.
This allows a modulation of the number of hours completed per week.
You can request a reduction of the weekly duration to less than 24 hours per week, depending on your situation.
You cannot work during the following times:
- Night (between 10 pm and 6 am)
- Public holidays.
FYI
You can benefit from accommodation and assistance to accomplish your mission.
Your host organization must register you for 2 mandatory trainings, including one in the first 3 months of your mission.
These courses are as follows:
- Training First aid Citizen (gestures that save)
- Training civic and citizen.
Civic and civic training lasts for a minimum of 2 days.
It covers topics of business and republican values (e.g. anti-discrimination, gender equality, democracy, sustainable development).
The content and conduct of these trainings are defined by the host organization, which may organize them internally or call on an external organization.
Please note
Your host organization can offer additional training.
To go abroad, you must be sent by a French organization and hosted by a foreigners organization.
In addition to your employment contract, you must sign an agreement that binds you with these two organizations.
If your mission takes place abroad, additional costs may be added, in particular for transport and accommodation on site.
In most cases, a significant part of the cost may be borne by you, even when the host organization makes its contribution.
Before signing your contract, it is strongly recommended to clarify the cost sharing between the approved organization and you, including for transport and accommodation.
Warning
For a stay of more than 3 months, you are not covered by French health insurance. Your sending organization must take out insurance to cover all your expenses related to care or a possible work accident, including a repatriation clause. Carefully check the content of the contract.
During your engagement, you benefit from State-funded social protection covering the following risks:
- Disease
- Maternity
- Disability
- ₪.
The rules depend on your situation:
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You are already affiliated to the general social security system
You are affiliated to the general social security scheme, in particular if you are in one of the following situations:
- Private sector employee
- Self-employed
- Student.
You must send a copy of your employment contract to your health insurance fund to inform them of your change of situation.
You are not affiliated to the general social security system
You depend on another plan
You are dependent on a social security scheme other than the general scheme, for example MSA: titleContent.
Check with your current plan to find out what steps you can take to be affiliated to the general social security system.
You can also contact the health insurance fund on which you depend.
You don't have a social security number
You must apply for entitlement to health insurance.
You must submit the following documents:
- Form of application for the opening of rights to health insurance
- Copy of your contract of employment
- Copy of your identity document (of your residence permit if you are a foreigner).
For your health coverage, the civic service does not entitle you to a mutual insurance.
But you can benefit from the complementary health solidarity if you meet the conditions.
You are entitled to 3 days off per month.
The conditions for combining the civic service allowance with an allowance vary according to the scheme concerned:
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Return to work assistance allowance
During the duration of the mission, the payment of your unemployment benefits is suspended, but you remain registered with France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi).
You're changing categories in the classification of jobseekers.
You're classified in category D.
It corresponds to unemployed persons who are not immediately available.
Think about update your situation with France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi) before the mission begins.
You will avoid having to pay an overpayment to France Travail.
At the end of the mission, you must update your situation within 5 days.
The payment of your unemployment benefits resumes when your mission is over.
It has no impact on the amount of payments or the duration of payments.
FYI
If you break an employment contract to perform your civic service commitment, this breach is considered a legitimate resignation. You will regain your unemployment insurance benefits at the end of your employment.
You can contact France Travail by one of the following means:
- Online
- On site
- By phone.
In the event of a move, you must inform the France Travail agency of your new place of residence.
The agency takes care of the transfer of the file.
By phone
39.49
- To update your situation, report a change of situation, inform you of a payment: automated service 7 days a week, 24 hours a day - Free service + price call
- To be put in contact with an advisor to register, inquire, modify an appointment: service accessible at the times set by each agency France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi) - Free service + price call
From foreigner: + 33 1 77 86 39 49
By mail
Access via the contact form
FYI
If you break an employment contract to perform your civic service commitment, this breach is considered a legitimate resignation. You will regain your rights to unemployment insurance or your entitlements to the RSA at the end of your engagement.
Active solidarity income
Payments of the RSA or the activity bonus shall be suspended for the duration of the mission.
They resume at the end of this one.
You must report any changes to the Caf: titleContent or MSA: titleContent.
Family Allowance Fund (Caf) online
If you are at the expense of your parents within the meaning of family benefitsHowever, the voluntary allowance that you receive is not taken into account in the calculation of your parents' social assistance entitlements.
FYI
If you break an employment contract to perform your civic service commitment, this breach is considered a legitimate resignation. You will find your entitlements to the RSA at the end of your engagement.
Allowance for adults with disabilities
You can combine your civic service allowance with the Disabled Adult Allowance (DAA) if you meet one of the following conditions:
- Your mission is unfolding in France
- Your mission does not exceed 3 months abroad.
Student Grant
Civic service has no impact on the conditions for awarding a student scholarship, nor on its amount.
The civic service allowance is not taken into account when calculating your scholarship.
At the end of your civic service, your host organization and your guardian must establish with you a nominative balance sheet end of mission.
This assessment shall describe the following:
- Activities carried out
- Skills acquired.
You receive a certificate of civic service.
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