Duration of the staff member's pension insurance

Verified 01 January 2026 - Public Service / Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

The amount of your pension depends on your duration of pension insurance. The duration of pension insurance mainly includes periods worked and paid in. But it also includes certain periods during which you have interrupted or reduced your activity. We present you the information to know.

The duration of your pension insurance refers to the periods of your working life during which you build up your pension rights.

The duration of pension insurance is recognized in quarters.

Your number of quarters of pension insurance is one of the taken into account for calculate the amount of your pension.

To qualify for a full pension, you must:

  • Or have a specified number of quarters of pension insurance
  • Or retire at age 67 regardless of your number of quarters.

The number of quarters required to qualify for a full pension before age 67 depends on your year of birth:

Tableau - Sedentary Public Servant - Conditions for Granting a Full Rate Pension

You were born:

You can retire from:

Number of quarters required to have the full rate

Automatic Full Rate Age

Between 1er January 1958 and December 31, 1960

62 years

167 (41 years 9 months)

67 years

Between 1er January 1961 and August 31, 1961

62 years

168 (42 years old)

67 years

Between 1er September 1961 and December 31, 1961

62 years and 3 months

169 (42 years 3 months)

67 years

In 1962

62 years and 6 months

169 (42 years 3 months)

67 years

Between 1 January 1963 and 31 March 1965

62 years and 9 months

170 (42 years 6 months)

67 years

Between 1 April 1965 and 31 December 1965

63 years

171 (42 years 9 months)

67 years

In 1966

63 years and 3 months

172 (43 years old)

67 years

In 1967

63 years and 6 months

172 (43 years old)

67 years

In 1968

63 years and 9 months

172 (43 years old)

67 years

From 1er January 1969

64 years

172 (43 years old)

67 years

If you retire before age 67 without the required number of quarters, your pension amount is reduced based on the number of quarters you are missing. This reduction is called a haircut.

Please note

If you are a civil servant of active category, the periods of insurance to obtain a full rate pension and the age of the automatic full rate, regardless of the period of insurance, are different.

If you have worked in sectors other than the public service and contributed to several pension funds, this is your total duration of insurance, all plans combined, which is taken into account in determining whether or not you are entitled to full-rate retirement pensions.

The periods of your working life during which you build up pension rights are, first of all, periods when you work and contribute to retirement :

  • Services as a staff member (incumbent and trainee)
  • Services performed as a magistrate of the judicial order
  • Services performed as a State worker prior to integration into the civil service
  • Services performed as a contractor before 2015 for which you requested validation as civil servant services
  • Services performed as a staff member of the overseas communities and New Caledonia
  • Military Services
  • For teachers, time spent at the normal school from the age of 18.

All periods of paid leave are taken into account: maternity leave, sick leave, etc.

The completed periods part-time shall be taken into account as if they were periods completed on a full-time basis.

For example, one year of part-time part-time work counts for one year of pension insurance (not 6 months).

Periods completed on a incomplete or incomplete employment are taken into account for their actual duration.

If you have children, you are also entitled to additional insurance quarters based on certain situations.

If you are a teacher in the 1er or the second degree, the periods during which you received education allowances and the 1e year spent in university training institute masters as recipients are taken into account, for half, if you have been tenured in a faculty.

You must ask taking these periods into account at the administration to which you report at the time of your application or, if this is not possible, at the last administration to which you reported.

You must make your request no later than 12 months before the date you wish to retire.

If you have made studies in higher education, you can under certain conditions have them validated for your retirement insurance period.

You can view your career statement, which summarizes your retirement insurance term, on the Retirement Info site from your retirement account.

If you have worked in sectors other than the public service, your career statement summarizes all your different professional periods in chronological order.

You can print and download your career statement in PDF format.

From the age of 55, you can report to your pension plans any discrepancies in your career statement and ask for them to be corrected: missing jobs, inconsistencies, etc.

Retirement Info - Correcting my career

Your pension funds are informed directly. You can then track their treatment on your retirement account.

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