CNAF

Caisse Nationale des Allocations Familiales

Country

France

Website

http://www.caf.fr/

Address

Avenue de la Sibelle 32, 75685 Paris
Phone: +33 1 45 65 52 52

Risks and Benefits

Child benefits, early childhood benefits, back-to-school allowances, birth grants, basic income benefits, housing allowances, disability allowances, support to recover child support, emergency assistance for victims of domestic violence, support to ECEC, social action programmes.

European Social and Health Policy focus

Social security coordination, early childhood education and care, work-life balance, European child guarantee, minimum income, gender equality, fight against cross-border fraud, access to rights and services, recovery of undue family benefits

Aim, structure and tasks of the organization

The Family Branch is part of the general Social Security system in France. It is organized as a network of 101 local Family Allowances Funds (Caf) and a National Family Allowances Fund (Cnaf). The relationship between the State and the CNAF is formalized through the signing of a multi-year agreement on objectives and management, renewed every five years. The Family Branch has three main missions:

- To support families in their daily lives, particularly work-life balance;

- To provide assistance to beneficiaries through personal housing benefits, especially for improving living conditions;

- To foster solidarity with the most vulnerable, including people with disabilities.

To achieve these missions, the Family Branch relies on two main levers:

1° The payment of financial benefits to families,

2° Support for families through the implementation or co-funding of various services and collective facilities intended for them.