Gradual retirement of public officials

Verified 01 September 2025 - Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

Do you want to reduce your professional activity at the end of your career as you approach retirement? The phased retirement system allows that. We explain the conditions.

Warning  

If you are contractor, the conditions for gradual retirement are the same as for a private sector employee.

Progressive retirement is a device that allows you, at the end of their career, work part-time and collect, at the same time, a portion of your pensions (basic and complementary).

During this period, you continue to contribute to retirement. You can choose to overcontribute, that is, contribute to retirement on the basis of a full-time index salary.

When you completely cease your professional activity, your permanent pension is recalculated taking into account the period during which you continued to work part-time.

You can learn more about phased retirement using an online service:

Know the conditions for gradual retirement

You must complete the 3 following conditions :

  • Be old enough toat least 60 years
  • Proof of an equivalent period of insurance and recognized periods fixed at 150 quarters with one or more basic pension funds
  • Exercise a part-time paid employment included enter 50% and 90% of a full time. This condition is not required if you are in a non-full-time or incomplete job. If you have multiple jobs that are not full-time or incomplete, your total working time should not exceed 90% of a full time.

Please note

You can apply for a phased retirement if you are already part-time.

In addition, you must not engage in any other professional activity than your activity in the public service. You must not combine your public service employment with one or more other activities.

Warning  

Part-time work for therapeutic reasons does not form part of the part-time work for which the right to progressive retirement is granted.

You can apply for a phased retirement online on the Retirement Info website using the service Apply for my graduated retirement :

Info Retirement - My retirement account

This service allows you to make a single application valid for all pension funds to which you have rights.

The service Apply for my graduated retirement forward your request to them.

The application for progressive retirement must be made at the earliest 5 months before the desired date.

You can send the completed form and its supporting documents immediately or save them for a maximum of 90 days and return to them later.

If you don't have internet access, you can apply for a phased retirement by mail. The process varies depending on whether you are a government official under the SRE: titleContent or territorial or hospital official under the CNRACL: titleContent.

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State official

You can submit your request using a form:

Application for gradual retirement of a State official or a magistrate

You must send this form to SRE: titleContent the address of which is shown on page 7 of the form.

Your application must specify the desired start date of your phased retirement.

This start date cannot be earlier than the date of your application.

Your employer administration sends the SRE the authorization to work part-time before the desired retirement date.

If you are already part-time at the time you apply for a phased retirement, you must indicate this in your application.

Once your file has been examined, you will receive a partial pension statement indicating the elements taken into account for the calculation and the amount that will be paid to you.

You are informed 30 days before the desired departure date of the allocation of the progressive retirement.

If you meet the requirements for a phased retirement on 1er on the day of a month, your phased retirement is due to you from 1er the day of the month following the date on which you meet these conditions.

The payment of the phased retirement begins one month after the SRE has informed you of the allocation of the phased retirement.

Territorial or hospital official

You must submit your application for progressive retirement to your employer administration, which will forward it to the CNRACL: titleContent.

Your application must specify the desired start date of your partial phased retirement.

This start date cannot be earlier than the date of your application.

Your employer's administration sends the CNRACL the authorization to work part-time.

If you meet the requirements for a phased retirement on 1er on the day of a month, your phased retirement is due to you from 1er the day of the month following the date on which you meet these conditions.

The payment of the phased retirement begins one month after the CNRACL has informed you of the allocation of the phased retirement.

Warning  

If you do not make the single application online, you must make a request to each pension fund to which you have rights.

Your graduated retirement admission will result in the provisional calculation of your SRE: titleContent or CNRACL: titleContent based on your rights at the time of your request.

During your phased retirement, you receive a fraction of your retirement pension in addition to your part-time working income.

The amount of pension you receive varies, depending on how long you work part-time compared to the legal maximum.

The portion of the retirement pension paid to you is equal to the difference between 100% and your share of part-time work.

For example, a part-time to 60% entitles you to 40% the amount of your temporary retirement.

The same pension fraction is granted to you by any other basic pension plans to which you are entitled and by theIrcantec.

You can simulate the amount of your phased retirement from your retirement account with the service My Retirement Estimate :

Info Retirement - My retirement account

The effects of a change in circumstances vary depending on the nature of the change:

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Your working hours change

If your working hours change, your employer administration will inform the SRE or the CNRACL.

The amount of your pension is revised from 1er the day of the month following the month in which the change occurred.

If your working hours change on 1er the amount of your pension is revised from that day onwards.

You no longer meet the conditions for graduated retirement

The payment of your progressive pension is suspended if you no longer meet the conditions to benefit from it.

For example, if you stop working on standby.

The payment of your progressive retirement is suspended from 1er the day of the month following the month in which you no longer meet the conditions to benefit from it.

If you no longer meet the conditions to benefit from the progressive retirement on 1er On a one-month day, your progressive retirement payment is suspended from that day.

You resume a full-time activity

If you return to full-time or full-time employment, your phased retirement is permanently terminated.

Your phased retirement ceases to be paid to you as of 1er the day of the month following your return to full-time or full-time employment.

If you resume a full-time or full-time activity on 1er on the day of a month, your phased retirement ceases to be paid to you on that day.

You can no longer benefit from phased retirement again, even if you work part-time again.

When you apply for your final retirement, the portion of your retirement pension that was paid to you during your phased retirement, in addition to your working income, is replaced by your full retirement pension.

Your final full retirement pension is calculated according to the usual rules for calculating retirement pension.

The period spent in progressive retirement during which you worked part-time and continued to contribute for retirement is taken into account as all periods of your professional life.

Part-time completed quarters count as full-time completed quarters for the calculation of your insurance term and, for their actual term, for the calculation of your liquidatable quarters.

Your final retirement pension cannot be less than your temporary retirement, which was calculated when you retired gradually and of which you received a fraction during your gradual retirement period.

Once you are admitted to permanent retirement, if you continue or resume a professional activity, the exercise of this professional activity is subject to the rules of employment-retirement accumulation.

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