In France, as in any country, there are different allowances to different social groups. Of course, there are social benefits to parents bringing up children alone. This revenue Solidarity - Revenu de solidarité active (RSA) and benefits to support families - L'allocation de soutien familial (ASF).

Income on solidarity

Income on solidarity parent provides a minimum monthly income. This allowance, which are not only single mothers, and any resident of France, reached twenty-five years, and even below that age who are pregnant or have to bring up children, if the total income does not exceed the cost of living.

The benefit is calculated as the difference between the maximum possible payment of an allowance (fixed amount + benefits 62% of the total family income) and cash family (including all benefits, including housing allowance) and recalculated every trimester. It is not paid, if the recalculation of its amount is less than six euros.

If a parent has become a loner (due to divorce, death of a spouse, deprivation of liberty, hospitalization, depriving them of income and in the absence of payments from him - for example, alimony payments), you must submit an application to the Organization for benefit payments family for the allocation received payments.

A fixed amount of benefits

A fixed amount of the benefit depends on the composition of the family, and for single parents raising one or more children, or even during pregnancy, ranging from special conditions and may be increased:

Number of children Single parent Married couple

0466, 99 € 700, 49 €

1700, 49 € 840, 59 €

2840, 59 € 980, 69 €

Each child 186, 80 € 186, 80 €

Total family income is calculated as the average monthly income of all family members during the previous trimester, including all sources of income (salary income while working as an intern, income from independent activities of private Other types of income).

Cash family - The average amount of financial resources of the family, such as family income, child support, regular payments of interest-bearing securities, unemployment benefits and the like.

Housing benefit is fixed in France:

56, 04 € per person in the family

112, 08 € for two people in the family

138, 70 € for three or more people in the family

Benefit to support families

Family support allowance is paid irrespective of income if a parent is or has become a loner as a result of the death of the spouse, if the spouse did not recognize the child in a divorce. It can also be awarded if the father for two months does not pay child support because his lack of income, for example in the case of unemployment, or the payment of an unwillingness to set the amount of the court. In the latter case, the Organization for payment of benefits shall pay the amount due the family a single mother and takes Beret - a symbol of French charm   the collection of child support from the non-paying parent's child support. If after parting Parting: punctuation rules   parent process to resolve child support has not yet taken place, the Organization for family benefit payments provides for the payment of money for only four months. In the fifth month the payment is made only if the process of setting the amount of child support was launched.

Currently, this allowance is 88, 44 € per month for each child and is paid from the month following that when parents are raising a child alone until the child reaches 20 years if all the time a parent living without a spouse or cohabitant.

Svetlana Shimkovich