Disability pension: third-party increase (TTP) - You're retired

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

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The third-party surcharge (TPM) increases the amount of your invalidity pension to finance the help of a person to carry out the essential acts of daily life (getting up, dressing, eating…).

It aims to compensate for the loss of autonomy linked to a particularly degraded state of health.

You can benefit from the third-party surcharge (TTP) if you receive a disability pension of the 3rd category, which means that you meet the following 2 conditions:

  • You were unable to work
  • Your disability requires you to seek the assistance of a third party to perform ordinary everyday activities.

You can also benefit from this increase if you are receiving a pension due to incapacity for work or replacing a disability pension

It is the medical consultant of the social security organization you depend on (CPAM or MSA) who determines, based on a grid of 10 ordinary acts of everyday life, whether you need the assistance of a third person.

This grid allows it to evaluate whether or not you can perform the following actions alone :

  • Get up and go to bed
  • Get up from a seat and sit in it
  • Moving around your home, including in a wheelchair
  • Settle in and out of your wheelchair
  • Rise in case of a fall
  • Leaving your home in case of danger
  • Dress and undress completely
  • Eat and drink
  • Go urinating and bowel movement without help
  • Put on your brace (if necessary).

The medical consultant determines the number of procedures for which you need assistance.

The need for assistance should be permanent or regular, not ad hoc.

If you are a retiree, you must apply for TPM from the organization that pays you your retirement pension.

Warning  

Not all liberal professions offer this system. To find out, you need to log in to your retirement account.

The third-party surcharge is €1,298.44 per month.

It is not taxable and its amount is revalued every year (in April).

The third-party surcharge is paid every month.

As soon as the conditions for granting the increase are met, payment shall be made on 1er the day of the month following the date of receipt of your request.

The payment stops if you no longer meet the conditions to benefit from it.

Please note

The third-party surcharge is not recoverable from the estate, which means that the sums paid to you will not have to be repaid by your heirs after your death.

Yes, MTP can, in some cases, be combined with other aid.

TPM is a lump sum benefit: the amount is the same regardless of the level of resources or the actual expenditure on human aid.

It differs from social assistance such as Personalized Autonomy Allowance (APA), which are covered by another scheme and may, subject to conditions, be partially cumulative depending on the situation.

Cumulation is possible only when the aid does not finance the same needs.

However, you cannot be compensated twice for the same expense.

No, MTP payments are not recoverable from the estate. They must not be reimbursed by the heirs.

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