Paragraph 1: Eligibility criteria.

In order to benefit from the specific solidarity allowance, the people mentioned in article L. 5423-1 :1° Must have been in paid employment for five years in the ten years preceding the end of the employment contract from which their rights to insurance benefits were opened. In the case of people who have interrupted their salaried activity to bring up a child, this period is reduced, up to a limit…

The resources taken into consideration for the application of the ceiling provided for in 3° of article R. 5423-1 include the solidarity allowance as well as the other resources of the person concerned and, where applicable, his or her spouse, partner in a civil solidarity pact or cohabiting partner, as they must be declared to the tax authorities for the calculation of income tax before deduction of the various allowances….

The following resources are not taken into account when determining entitlement to the specific solidarity allowance: 1° The insurance allowance previously received by the person concerned ; 2° The increased solidarity allowance ; 3° Family benefits; 4° The exceptional back-to-work bonus introduced by decree no. 2005-1054 of 29 August 2005 creating an exceptional back-to-work bonus for certain recipients of minimum social benefits; 5° La prime de retour à l’emploi instituée…

Alimony or maintenance payments fixed by a divorce or legal separation agreement by mutual consent as provided for in article 229-1 of the Civil Code, a deed certified by a notary, a divorce agreement approved by a judge or by a court decision that has become enforceable are deducted from the resources of the person paying them.

For the purposes of determining resources, no account is taken of solidarity benefits, insurance benefits, work experience payments or income from employment received during the reference period if it can be shown that the receipt of these resources has been definitively discontinued at the date of the application and that the beneficiary of these resources is not entitled to a substitute income. Where the beneficiary is entitled to a substitute…

When the total resources taken into consideration exceed the ceiling mentioned in 3° of article R. 5423-1, the allowance is only paid up to an overall amount of resources equal to the ceiling.