Personalized social support measure (Masp) or judicial (Maj)
Verified 27 April 2026 - Public Service / Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
The accompanying measures allow a comprehensive care of adults who are not affected by an alteration of their mental or bodily faculties. These individuals must receive social benefits (e.g. RSA: titleContent), but fail to use them properly. These measures concern people who need help but do not need to be assisted or represented. We present you the information to know.
There are 2 types of measures: personalized social support measure (Masp)entrusted to the services of the departmental council and set up in agreement with the person in difficulty, and judicial accompanying measure (Maj), which is imposed by the judge.
Masp
The Masp is a administrative accompanying measure. It is implemented by the social services of the department.
It helps an adult with difficulties managing social benefits (for example, debt, difficulties with administrative procedures).
The MPA targets people whose health and safety are at risk and who can no longer live in decent conditions (e.g. risk of loss of housing, lack of care, inability to manage).
The Masp is the subject of a personalized social support contract (Casp).
It can be set up alone where to come following a judicial accompanying measure (Maj).
People with one or more social benefits can apply for the opening of a Masp.
Warning
Persons with income other than benefits are not covered by this scheme.
29 social benefits are covered by the MASP:
- Personalized housing assistance
- Social housing allowance
- Personalized autonomy allowance
- Solidarity allowance for the elderly
- Allowance for old salaried workers
- Allowance for old self-employed persons
- Allowance for mothers
- Special old-age allowance
- Life allowance for returnees
- Old Age Farm Allowance
- Additional allowance
- Supplementary disability allowance
- Allowance for adults with disabilities
- Resource Add-in
- Surcharge for independent living
- Disability compensation
- Specific disability compensation benefit
- Share of active solidarity income equal to the difference between a lump sum and household resources
- Early Childhood Care Benefit
- Family allowances
- Family supplement
- Housing allowance
- Child-rearing allowance for disabled children
- Family Support Allowance
- Back-to-School Allowance
- Daily allowance for parental presence
- Annuity paid to orphans in case of
- Representative allowance for household services
- Differential Allocation
- Disability Compensation Benefit.
Reciprocal Commitments
The measurement takes the form of a personalized social support contract (Casp) between the department's services and the person concerned.
The Casp provides for actions to promote the social integration of the person.
It is also intended to ensure that the person concerned by the measure is able to manage his social benefits on his own again.
The beneficiary of the Casp may authorize the services of the department to collect and manage, for him, all or part of the social benefits he receives. These benefits may be affected as a priority payment of rent and outstanding rental charges.
MASP can also be delegated by agreement to social services (e.g. Caf).
Refusal to sign or breach of contract
If the adult refuses to sign the contract or does not respect it, the services of the department can, if he has not paid his rent for 2 months, propose a procedure of direct payment of his rent.
The departments of the department enter by request the judge of the execution of the judicial court (JEX) the place of residence of the beneficiary of the benefits.
The application shall contain a statement of the reasons for the application and an indication of the benefits of the person concerned.
The services of the department send a copy of the request to the person and a copy of all supporting documents by registered mail with acknowledgement of receipt or by another means (deed of commissioner of justice or hand-delivered).
The JEX may decide that the social benefits will be paid directly to the landlord each month (up to the amount of the rent and rental charges due). In this case, an automatic debit is set up.
The departments of the department may also public prosecutor. It shall send a detailed evaluation report.
Finally, the prosecutor may decide to refer the matter to the guardianship judge to initiate a judicial accompanying measure (Maj) or a judicial protection measure (curatorship, guardianship or family authorization).
Duration of the sampling
This levy may be set up for 4 years maximum.
It must not have the effect of depriving the person of his resources to live and those of his dependants.
The department can at any time ask the judge to stop this measure.
Yes, one financial contribution may be requested from the person who has signed a contract.
The amount is determined on the basis of its resources and expenses, subject to a ceiling.
The income taken into account is that received in the year preceding the introduction of the measure.
The levy is made in installments as for income tax.
Annual income band | Percentage taken | Maximum amount in the tranche | Annual cumulative maximum amount |
|---|---|---|---|
Enter €0 and €12,499 | 0 | €0 | €0 |
Enter €12,499 and €21,876.40 | 10% | €938 | €938 |
Enter €21,876.40 and | 23% | €7,459.59 | €8,397.32 |
Enter and | 3% | €2,270.31 | €10,667.63 |
If a judicial representative for the protection of adults (Mjpm) has been appointed, a participation is also requested according to the income and expenses of the person concerned. In this case, the participation is monthly.
The contract duration varies from 6 months to 2 years.
He is renewable after prior assessment. The contract may be amended by endorsement.
The maximum duration of the contract may not exceed 4 years.
The measure ends at the end of the contract if the objectives set have been achieved and the major has regained complete autonomy.
The department's services inform the public prosecutor of the person's social, financial and medical situation and the results of the actions taken with him.
In the event of failure of the measure, the prosecutor may refer the matter to the guardianship judge to initiate a more binding measure (judicial accompanying measure, safeguarding justice, curatorship, guardianship).
Shift
Maj is a measure pronounced by the judge. The latter appoints a legal representative for the protection of adults (MJPM) to collect and manage, all or part, the social benefits of a person in difficulty. The purpose of the measure is to enable it to be autonomous again in the management of its resources.
Shift is binding, that is, it is imposed on the person concerned.
The following may be affected by the Shift:
- Major that has been the subject of a personalized social support measure (Masp) that has not made it possible to achieve the objectives envisaged and to make it autonomous in the management of its resources
- Major not subject to a measure of guardianship, curatorship or safeguarding justice
- Major for which any less restrictive action (e.g. application of the rules concerning spouses' rights and duties) is insufficient.
Shift is about not married persons (the matrimonial property regime includes mechanisms to avoid the use of professional agents).
Warning
These people must not experience an impairment of their mental and/or bodily faculties.
The Maj is implemented in case of failure of the Masp and when the health and safety of the middle finger is compromised. For example, in the event of refusal to conclude the Masp contract, failure to comply with the commitments provided for or persistent difficulties despite the implementation of the Masp.
Role of the Public Prosecutor
The public prosecutor is informed, by a report from social services, when a Masp has failed. He is then the alone to be able to refer the matter to the guardianship judge for a Shift to be taken. He must inform the department services.
Role of the guardianship judge
The judge makes his decision after having had the opinion of the public prosecutor and heard or called the person concerned.
It appoints a judicial representative for the protection of adults (MJPM) from among those on a list drawn up and kept up to date by the prefect.
The judge decides which social benefits are covered by the measure. It can even extend them to family benefits.
FYI
A member of the person's family may not be appointed as an agent as in the legal protection measures opened by the guardianship judge (guardianship, curatorship, family empowerment, safeguarding justice).
Role of the Judicial Agent for the Protection of Adults (MJPM)
The MJPM collects the benefits included in the Shift and charges them to an account opened in the person's name. It can no longer receive them directly.
This account is attached to an institution authorized to receive funds from the public.
The MJPM must manage them in the person's best interests, taking into account their opinion and family situation. It must take educational action on her to enable her, in the long run, to manage her benefits on her own. The MJPM teaches him, for example, to prioritize the payment of his invoices, to follow his accounts.
The main consequence of the Shift is that the person concerned no longer manages his social or family benefits.
However, Maj allows him to carry out all acts of civilian life. For example, shopping, managing your salary, selling property belonging to you, inheriting.
The judge monitors the measures put in place and can adapt them if necessary.
Yes, the person must contribute to the financing of the measure based on their income and expenses. This participation is monthly.
The income taken into account is that received in the year preceding the introduction of the measure.
The levy is made in installments as for income tax.
Annual income band | Percentage taken | Maximum amount in the tranche | Annual cumulative maximum amount |
|---|---|---|---|
Enter €0 and €12,499 | 0 | €0 | €0 |
Enter €12,499 and €21,876.40 | 10% | €938 | €938 |
Enter €21,876.40 and | 23% | €7,459.59 | €8,397.32 |
Enter and | 3% | €2,270.31 | €10,667.63 |
The department also funds the Shift based on the social benefits that are the subject of the measure.
The duration is determined by the judge.
She's from 2 years maximum, renewable 1 time for 2 years, without exceeding 4 years in total. However, if the judge orders a renewal, his decision must be reasoned.
Renewal may be requested by the following persons:
- Protected person
- Judicial agent for the protection of adults (Mjpm)
- Public Prosecutor.
The same applies to terminating or changing the scope of the measure: the judge may do so at any time, ex officio or at the request of one of the persons mentioned above, after hearing it.
The measure ends automatically if a safeguard measure of justice, guardianship or curatorship is opened.
FYI
At the end of the update, a MASP may be concluded again if the conditions laid down for that measure are again fulfilled.
Warning
Measure after measure, the support can in total continue in its various forms during 8 years.
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