Orphan's pension on the death of an employee

To receive an orphan's pension, your two parents must be dead.

You can perceive an orphan's pension from the Social Security Retirement Insurance for each deceased parent if your two parents were covered by pension insurance.

You must be under 22 years of age or, if your annual operating income does not exceed a ceiling amount, under 26 years of age.

This ceiling amount is equal to 12 times 55% of Smic: titleContent calculated at 1^er January based on 169 hours.

If you are under the age of 26, the orphan's pension can be granted to you if your income from work does not exceed €13,407.11 per year (€1,117.26 per month).

The income from work taken into account is your income for the 12 months preceding the date from which the orphan's pension is granted to you.

The orphan's pension is granted no age requirement if you meet the following conditions:

• At age 21, you were permanently incapacitated at least equal to 80% or at least equal to 50% if the CDAPH: titleContent has recognized, in view of your disability, a substantial and lasting restriction on access to employment (RSADE)
• And your business income doesn't exceed €13,407.11 per year (€1,117.26 per month).

The application for an orphan's pension is made on the official public website Retirement Info.

This simulator allows you to check if you are entitled to an orphan's pension:

Reversion Right Simulator

At the end of the process, if you are entitled to the orphan's pension, you can apply for your pension online by clicking on Request my reversion.

By clicking on the button My supporting documents, you get a list of documents to attach to your application.

If you do not have a scanner, you can use the application My retirement account to scan your credentials.

The orphan's pension is equal à 54% of the retirement pension which your deceased parent benefited or could have benefited from.

When the deceased parent was still in employment, the retirement pension used as the basis for calculating the orphan's pension is the pension that would have been granted to your parent if he had applied for retirement on the date of the grant of the orphan's pension.

It is therefore calculated, in particular, on the basis of the length of the deceased's pension insurance at the date on which the orphan's pension was awarded.

The orphan's pension may not be less than €108.58 gross per month.

Where there are several orphan children, the orphan's pension shall be divided equally between the different children.

If a new beneficiary child applies for the orphan's pension, the amount of orphan's pensions already granted to the other beneficiaries is revised.

The orphan's pension shall be granted:

• At the earliest, the 1st^er day of the month following the death of your 2^e parent, if you apply within one year of death
• At 1^er day of the month following the date of receipt of your application if you apply after this one-year period.

You must declare to the Carsat: titleContent who pays you the pension any change in your relationship and, from the age of 21, any change in your income from employment.

If you are disabled and have a permanent disability, you must report any changes to that disability.

The orphan's pension ends if your income from work exceeds the maximum amount (€13,407.11 per year).

The payment of the pension shall end the month following the exceeding of this ceiling.