Purchase of non-contributed pension quarters

If you were a member of Agessa between 1975 and 2019, your contributions were deducted (paid directly to Agessa) by your distributors. However, this deduction did not include contributions to the basic old-age insurance scheme, so you did not contribute to this scheme, nor did you accrue any rights for these periods. Your career record does not take these years of work into account, as you have not validated any quarters.

To remedy this situation, Social Security offers you the opportunity to buy back the quarters you have not contributed, in order to complete your career record and improve the amount of your retirement pension.

1. Who is eligible?

Former Agessa contributors, whether already retired or not.

2. What periods are covered?

Artistic remuneration received more than 3 years after December 31, 1975.

You can regularize up to 5 periods of at least 3 consecutive calendar years (even if you did not receive any artistic income during part of this period).

3. what income is concerned?

Artistic remuneration, except
- those paid by a foreign broadcaster
- ancillary remuneration
- remuneration exceeding the social security ceiling

4. What to do?

- request a statement of pension contributions from the Social Security for Artists and Authors in your private area or via their contact form

- check whether you are missing any quarters and for which period(s), with the help of the guide "Understanding your career statement".

- estimate the amount you need to buy back your quarters using the pension insurance simulator for artists and authors

- Prepare your application by assembling your supporting documents (full statement of royalties or, failing that, alternative documents, listed here:

- complete the form https://www.lassuranceretraite.fr/portail-info/files/live/sites/pub/files/PDF/demande-regularisation-cotisations-vieillesse-arrierees-artiste-auteur.pdf

- Send it postage-free before January 1, 2028 to :

CNAV Assurance retraite Ile de France

CS 70009

93166 NOISY LE GRAND CEDEX

- Wait for the reply from the Assurance Retraite (within 3 months of acknowledgement of receipt) and the buy-back estimate (within 2 months).

- If necessary, you may be eligible for exceptional assistance to buy back these overdue pension contributions. Application procedures are not yet known.