Each year, the amount of the daily caregiver allowance (AJPA) changes.
In France, 60% of people losing their autonomy or disabled are helped by one or more relatives. These relatives represent 8 to 11 million people including 44% have difficulty reconciling their role with their professional life. Since October 1, 2020these so -called “caregivers” are entitled to A “leave and a nearby daily help (AJPA)”. THE AJPA amount is regularly revised upwards.
Definition: What is the career leave?
The leave or the near helping allowance replaces family support leave since 2017. It allows all employee who wish to suspend or temporarily lighten their professional activity To support their loved ones when a medical context, convalescence or a change of situation require a close presence. The caregiver is a person who helps to a dependent person (with disabilities, elderly person, damage to a chronic or long -term disease, etc.) in the accomplishment Essential acts of everyday life (cleaning, toilet, meals, assistance for care, ensure travel or presence during leisure activities, etc.). The nearest assistant of a person must be “his partner, his partner, a parent, an ascendant or a descendantor its collateral until 4e degree (brother, sister, aunt, uncle, cousin germain (e), nephew, niece …), a person living with him or which maintains close and stable links with itregularly and frequently, on a non -professional basis, to perform all or part of the acts or activities of daily life“, Indicates article L. 113-1-3 of the Code of Social Action and Families, introduced by law relating to the adaptation of society to aging December 28, 2015.
What is the amount of the AJPA?
The caregiver leave is not not paid by the employer (except conventional provisions providing it). On the other hand, the employee can receive a daily allowance of the caregiver (Ajpa) For compensate for part of the loss of salary. Its amount is revalued every January 1. To date (2025), the amount is:
- 65.80 euros per day
- 32.90 euros half-day
You can benefit from it to 66 days per person helpedthroughout your career. From 2025, this allowance is now allocated for up to 4 different peoplea total potential of 264 days (66 days × 4 people)
The leave request is to be done by the employee with his employer, at least 1 month Before the departure date on envisaged leave. The leave begins without delay if it is justified by one of the following situations:
- Emergency linked in particular to a sudden degradation of the health state of health (attested by medical certificate)
- Crisis situation requiring urgent action by the employee
- Brutal cessation of accommodation in an establishment enjoyed by the assisted person (attested by the manager of the establishment)
At his request, the employee must specify:
- The desire to suspend his employment contract to benefit from the leave of caregiver
- The date of leave on leave.
- The will to split up (or transform it into part -time), if the employee wishes
The employee cannot exercise No other professional activity during the leave. However, it can be used by the person helped when the latter perceives the personalized autonomy allowance (APA) or the disability compensation service (PCH).
What are the documents to provide to benefit from it?
The request for a close caregiver must be accompanied by the following documents:
- Declaration on honor either of the employee’s family bond with the assisted person, or of the help provided to an elderly or disabled person with whom he resides or maintains close and stable ties
- Declaration on honor specifying either that he did not have recourse, throughout his career, to a caregiver leave, or, if he has already benefited, from his duration
- Copy of the decision justifying a permanent incapacity rate at least 80 % (if the assisted person is a disabled child at their expense or a disabled adult) or a copy of the decision to allocate the personalized autonomy allowance (APA) under a classification in groups I, II and III of the AGGIR grid (when the person helped suffer from a loss of autonomy).
The employee can end early on the caregiver leave (or give it up) in one of the following cases:
- Death of the assisted person
- Admission to an assigned person’s establishment
- Significant decrease in employee resources
- Using a home help service to assist the assisted person
- Local caregiver leave by another family member.
The employee informs the employer of his wish to end his leave, taking into account The notice period To be observed before the employee’s early return. The information and deadlines for information are determined by the company’s agreement or collective agreement (or, if not, by branch agreement or agreement). In the absence of an applicable agreement or agreement, the employee sends a reasoned request to the employer at least 1 month before the departure date to which he intends to end his leave. It can use any means of justifying the date of the request (recommended letter or email, for example).
