APL, family allowances … In February, the amount of aid changes, what impact for you?

Each new year is the same question for beneficiaries: my caf she’s going Increase, maintain or lower the amount of my aid? The month of January indeed corresponds to the period when the Family Allowance Fund updates the calculations for access to its social benefits.

And this year 2025, new features are actually expected concerning CAF aid. They will be passed on during the next payment, in this case, the February 5, 2025).

A revaluation of 4.8 % on January 1, 2025

The reason for these changes? There Revaluation of resource ceilings on January 1, 2025supervised by a decree published in Official Journal of December 27, 2024.

This reassessment is 4,8 % which corresponds – almost – to inflation of the year 2023 (+ 4.9 %), estimated by the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE).

2023, and not 2024? You have read correctly: each year, CAF recovers well, “with taxes, your resources of year n-2 (2023) for the renewal of your rights or the calculation of your new rights”, she writes on her site.

In 2025, it is therefore your 2023 resources, declared in 2024, which serve as the basis for the recalculation of your rights for 2025.

Some will touch more, others less

The scales having evolved on January 1 and the payment of associated aids taking place in February, good newsSo soon awaits some beneficiaries on February 5, 2025. Depending on their situation, this can indeed lead an increase in their allowance .

Conversely, others could be disappointed: those whose income increased in 2023 beyond the revaluation of 4.8 % of resource ceilings. For these beneficiaries, the amount of aid may decrease. Or, if you are now exceeding the ceilings, you may no longer be eligible for some of your services.

The scale of these new ceilings as well as the amount of aid according to your situation can be found on the CAF site.

What aid is concerned?

Here the services that are concernedBy these new features, according to CAF:

• Family allowances;
• Family supplement;
• The allowance for disabled adults (AAH) “if it is annualized”;
• Housing aid (APL, ALF, ALS);
• The complement of free choice of childcare mode (CMG);
• The basic allowance.

Almost 13 million beneficiaries of social assistance

The recalculation of your rights is done automatically by CAF, in partnership with the tax administration. On the other hand, if you have not (yet) informed your resources of the year 2023, you were normally warned by e-mail or SMS, or via your personal space on the CAF website.

Do not delay in updating any change in your personal situation, so that CAF can correctly recalculate your rights – who knows, you could even be eligible for new aids …

If you want to know which social assistance you are entitled, in a few clicks, you can rely on this simulator put online by the government a few years ago.

To date, Almost 12.9 million households benefit from social benefitsaccording to INSEE statistics published in mid-October 2024.

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