What are the differences between personal housing assistance (APL, ALF, ALS)?

It exists 3 types of aid housing staff:

• Personalized housing assistance (APL)
• Family Housing Allowance (FHA)
• Social Housing Allowance (SLA).

This aid is intended to decrease the amount of your rent (or your royalty if you live in an institution such as a home-dwelling, or a student residence).

These aids differ in their award criteria, and not by their calculation method.

Their amount depends on the resources of your household.

To find out if you can receive personal housing assistance, you can use a simulator. It will also tell you how much you can claim.

The simulator to use depends on your plan: general plan (family allowance fund - Caf) or agricultural plan (agricultural social mutuality - MSA).

APL

The LPA shall be allocated depending on your accommodation (regardless of your family situation: single, married, with or without dependants).

It must be a contracted accommodation that you rent (most of the HLM homes are contracted).

ALF

ALF is assigned depending on your family situation when you are in one the following cases:

• You benefit from family benefits or the child-rearing allowance for disabled children (AEEH)
• You have 1 dependent child up to 21 years of age and you cannot benefit from family benefits or AEEH
• You are married and have no dependent children (you can receive assistance for a period of 5 years from the date of your marriage)
• You are expecting a child and living alone, without a dependent, from 1^er day of calendar month next to 4^e month of pregnancy and up to the calendar month of your child's birth
• You assume the responsibility of a ascending over 65 years of age (or 60 years of age, if unfit for work, deported or veteran) and have no resources in excess of the Solidarity Allowance for the Elderly (Aspa). Assuming the burden means meeting basic needs (housing, food, care, ...).
• You assume the burden of an ascendant, descendant or 2nd or 3rd degree collateral suffering from an infirmity resulting in a permanent incapacity of at least 80% or who, in view of his disability, is recognized by the Commission on the Rights and Autonomy of Persons with Disabilities (CDAPH) as being unable to work. Assuming the burden means meeting basic needs (housing, food, care, ...).

ALS

ALS is assigned when you do not meet the conditions to benefit from the APL or the ALF.