Can the Apa or PCH be used to pay for a home help or family caregiver? - Apa
Verified 01 janvier 2026 - Public Service / Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
The Apa can be used to paying for home care or paying a service provider.
You have the possibility directly hire the person of your choice as a home help (unless that person is there person you live with as a couple). In this case, this person becomes your employee and you become an individual employer. Declarations of wages must then be made to the Union for the Recovery of Social Security Contributions and Family Allowances (Urssaf) by means of Cesu declarative.
You can also use the Apa to paying for a service as an authorized home care provider. A service provider is an organization (association or company of personal services) that itself employs home help. The service provides this service and sends you an invoice.
In this case, you simply pay the invoice of the provider and you do not have the status of individual employer.
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Departmental House for Disabled Persons (MDPH)
Definition of caregiver of a person with a disability
Definition of caregiver of an elderly person (Article L113-1-3)
Possibility of using the Apa to employ a caregiver with the exception of the person with whom you live as a couple (article L232-7)
Use of the PCH to compensate or compensate the family caregiver (L245-3 and L245-12)
Definition of caregiver (R245-7), use of PCH to pay caregiver (D245-8)
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National Solidarity Fund for Autonomy (CNSA)
