Disability Compensation Benefit (DCP)
Verified 01 January 2026 - Public Service / Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
Do you have expenses related to your loss of autonomy? You can benefit, under certain conditions, from the disability compensation benefit (PCH). We present you the information to know.
In order to collect the PCH, you must comply with loss of autonomy,age, resources and residence.
Autonomy
You must be in one of the following situations:
- You're having a problem absolute for the realization of an important daily activity among a repository of activities (for example, washing). The difficulty is described as absolute if you cannot perform the activity at all.
- You're having a problem severe for the performance of at least 2 important daily activities among a repository of activities (for example, washing and walking). The difficulty of doing these activities is described as serious if you can hardly do these activities.
The difficulties in carrying out this or these activities must be definitive, or of a foreseeable duration of at least 1 year.
Age
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20 years or older
You must be under 60 to apply for PCH.
However, you can apply for the PCH beyond the age of 60 and without age limit if you already met the conditions for the award before the age of 60 or if you continue to work.
Under 20
To benefit from the PCH, you must collect the child-rearing allowance for disabled children (AEEH) and be entitled to a supplement from the AEEH.
Resources
The PCH is awarded without resource requirements. However, your resources are taken into account to determine the rate of coverage of your expenses to compensate for your disability.
Thus, your expenses are covered at 100% their rate if your annual resources are less than or equal to €30,915.30, or 80% if they are superior.
Residence
You can collect the PCH if you live in your home or institution.
FYI
If you are homeless, you must make a domiciliation procedure to be able to obtain the PCH.
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At home
To receive the PCH, you must reside in France.
If you are a foreigner, you must have resided in France for at least 3 months. This 3-month requirement is not required if you are a student or in vocational training.
You must also have a valid residence permit.
Accommodation in an establishment
You can obtain PCH if you are housed in a social or medico-social institution or hospitalized in a health facility.
If you have not been able to get an establishment in France and you are staying in an establishment located in Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy or Spain, you can also collect the PCH.
It's there CDAPH: titleContent who should decide on your accommodation in one of these countries.
Your stay must be between 1 and 5 years and be covered by the health insurance or the social assistance of the department.
The request for PCH is then made before your departure from France.
The request can be made online through an online service, if the MDPH of your residence offers it:
MDPH (AAH, PCH, admission to Ésat, accommodation...) and renewal
You can also make your request by post through a form:
Application or renewal of disability benefits (AAH, PCH, CMI, accommodation...)
You must reach supporting documents mentioned during your online application or on the form.
The documents must be sent (or scanned if you apply online) to the MDPH of your place of residence.
It is the CDAPH that decides on the allocation of the PCH.
Their response usually takes place within 4 months from the date of filing your application.
In the absence of response beyond 4 months, the application shall be considered as rejected.
The FCH comprises 5 forms of aid:
- Human
- Technical
- Fitting out of the dwelling or vehicle, or additional transport costs
- Disability-related specific or exceptional expenses
- Animal.
Human aid
Human assistance is used to cover the intervention of a third person, insured by a family caregiver (a family member who is not an employee for this assistance), an employee or a service provider of home help.
Aid | Full rate support | Partial rate support |
|---|---|---|
Direct employment of a third party | 100% within the limit of €19.34 the time or €20.10 in the event of gestures related to care or endotracheal aspirations | 80% within the limit of €19.34 the time or €20.10 in the event of gestures related to care or endotracheal aspirations |
Proxy Service | 100% within the limit of €21.27 or €22.11 in the event of gestures related to care or endotracheal aspirations | 80% within the limit of €21.27 or €22.11 in the event of gestures related to care or endotracheal aspirations |
Authorized Service Provider | 100% within the limit of €25.00the time or within the limit of the amount fixed between the service provider and the department | 80% within the limit of €25.00 the time or within the limit of the amount fixed between the service provider and the department |
Family Caregiver | 100% and compensation up to €4.78 the time or €7.16 the time if the caregiver reduces or abandons his professional activity | 80% and compensation up to €4.78 the time or €7.16 the time if the caregiver reduces or abandons his professional activity |
In addition, human aid can be allocated if you experience difficulties such as:
- Managing your stress in the face of the unexpected
- Manage social interactions
- Plan, organize, initiate, execute and manage time for usual or unusual activities
- Perform multiple tasks of daily living, such as preparing a meal or going to a medical appointment.
You can also be accompanied in transport.
The human aid time can reach 3 hours per day. It is granted in the form of time credit capitalized over a period of 12 months. This time consists of accompanying you in the realization of these activities, without carrying them out for you.
Human aid also includes the possibility of pay a person to help you with the daily tasks of raising your child if you have a disability.
Finally, if you have deafness over 70 decibels and you need a communication device that requires the help of a person, you can benefit from €487.89 per month.
If you have blindness (you have a central vision zero or less than 1/20 of normal vision), you can benefit from a package of 50 hours per month, either €813.15 per month.
FYI
If you have the 2 impairments (deafness and blindness) you can benefit from a human assistance package corresponding to an assistance time of 30, 50 or 80 hours per month.
Technical Help
Technical assistance is intended for the purchase or rental of equipment to compensate for your disability (for example, wheelchair).
The level of repayment differs depending on whether the aid is included in the list of refundable products and services (LPPR) by Social Security. To find out, you need to ask your health insurance fund.
Aid | Full rate support | Partial rate support |
|---|---|---|
PBPA Help | À 100% within the limit of €13,200 per 10-year period. Where the technical assistance is priced at €3,000, this limit shall be increased by the amounts of the tariffs concerned after deduction of the support granted by the Social Security. | À 80% within the limit of €13,200 per 10-year period |
Aid not on PBPA | À 75% within the limit of €13,200 per 10-year period | À 75% within the limit of €13,200 per 10-year period |
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Technical assistance also includes the possibility of take care of the childcare equipment (for example, changing table, stroller) for your child from birth and on his 3rd and 6th birthday.
Housing development assistance
Housing development assistance is intended to take care of part of the work of your home to compensate for your disability.
If you are accommodated, the home improvement work of the person hosting you can also be taken care of. To do this, you must be in one of the following situations:
- You live with a ascending, descendant or a collateral until 4e degree
- You reside with an ascendant, descendant or collateral until 4e level of your partner, common-law partner or Civil partnership partner.
Moving costs can also be covered.
Housing development
Aid | Full rate support | Partial rate support |
|---|---|---|
Work up to €1,500 | À 100% within the limit of €10,000 per 10-year period | À 80% within the limit of €10,000 per 10-year period |
Work greater than €1,500 | À 50% within the limit of €10,000 per 10-year period | À 50% within the limit of €10,000 per 10-year period |
In case of need of moving
When housing development is impossible or too expensive and you choose to move to housing that meets accessibility standards, the costs can be covered.
This support is up to €3,000 per 10-year period.
Aid for transport
The assistance includes the fitting out of your vehicle and additional costs related to the trips.
In order to qualify, you must hold a license with a restrictive indication of a suitable driving position.
Additional costs for journeys may also be covered in the case of either:
- Regular, frequent or annual leave
- Movements between your home and the medical-social establishment when they are carried out by a third party or when the distance to and from the home is greater than 50 km.
Help | Full rate support | Partial rate support |
|---|---|---|
Vehicle fit-up costs up to €1,500 | À 100% | À 80% |
Costs of fitting out the vehicle beyond €1,500 | À 75% within the maximum limit of €10,000 over a period of 10 years | À 75% within the limit of €10,000 over a period of 10 years |
Extra cost for the journey by private car | À 100% within the limit of €0.50 per km and from €24,000 over a period of 10 years | À 80% within the limit of €0.50 per km and from €24,000 over a period of 10 years |
Additional cost of travel with other means of transport | À 75% within the limit of €10,000 over a period of 10 years | À 75% within the limit of €10,000 over a period of 10 years |
Specific or exceptional aid
Specific charges are permanent and foreseeable disability-related expenditure and not taken into account by any of the other elements of the FCH. For example, it may be the cost of maintaining a wheelchair.
Exceptional expenses are one-off expenses related to disability and not taken into account by any of the other elements of the FCH. This may include, for example, the cost of repairing a nursing bed.
Aid | Partial and full rate support |
|---|---|
Specific Loads | À 75% within the limit of €100 per month |
Exceptional charges | À 75% up to €6,000 per 10-year period |
Animal aid
Animal aid is intended for the acquisition and maintenance of an animal (e.g. a blind dog). In this case, the animal must have been educated by qualified educators.
Reimbursement can be up to 100% charges in case of full-rate pick-up (80% at partial rate) up to €6,000 per 10-year period.
PCH is awarded for life if your health cannot improve.
Otherwise, it is awarded for a maximum of 10 years.
The PCH is usually paid monthly by the departmental council.
Payments may be regular to cover ongoing needs such as human or technical assistance. They can also be punctual for specific or exceptional expenses such as the purchase of adapted equipment.
The sums paid to you do not have to be reimbursed by your heirs upon your death.
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