Student health

You benefit from the reimbursement of your health costs in the event of illness or maternity by the primary fund of your place of residence.

Your vital card

Your vital card is your social insurance card.  It certifies your insurance rights disease.  Remember to update it at least once a year using the terminals available in all health insurance funds, pharmacies and in some health facilities and every change of situation.

Systematically present it to any healthcare professional.  With it no more leaf paper care to be sent: you are reimbursed in 5 days.

The refunded amount is paid into your bank account, subject to providing a bank identity statement (RIB) to your health insurance fund.

Your attending physician

You must choose and declare an attending physician.  From 16 years old, without attending physician you are less well reimbursed.

Choose your attending physician

Take note:

• No need to consult your doctor specifically to make the declaration of choice the attending physician: take advantage of a next consultation or a trip to his cabinet to carry out this formality!
• For young people under 18, the agreement and signature of the holder of the authority parental is necessary.
• You must make a new declaration of choice from the attending physician if you change attending physician, or if your attending physician ceases to operate, changes activity or move
• You are not affected by the obligation to report a treating physician if:
• You are affiliated as a family member of an international civil servant with the social security system of the international organization,
• You are a citizen of the European Union / European Economic Area (EU / EEA, see the list of countries in the European Union and the Economic Area European on the accueil-etrangers.gouv.fr website) or from Switzerland in possession of a European health insurance card (EHIC) or a provisional certificate,
• You are a citizen of the Principality of Monaco.

In the event of a work accident or illness professional

As a student, you benefit from occupational accident and illness insurance professional (AT MP. This insurance covers you for accidents that occur):

– During the courses given in the workshop or laboratory

– during internships in a company, provided that they appear in the program of your studies and put into practice the teaching provided, that they give rise to the signature of an internship agreement and that they are unpaid but may give rise to gratification.

If you exercise a professional activity in parallel with your studies, you are affiliated to the regime on which this activity depends, on presentation of any document justifying this situation, for example, your employment contract, a pay slip…

You must also justify the regularity of your stay.

YOU ARE A WORKSHOP STUDENT

You are affiliated to the general scheme (or to the MSA in the event of a work-study contract in the agricultural sector).  You then have the same social protection guarantees as the salaried workers.

You benefit from:

– Reimbursement of your health costs

– daily allowances in the event of sick leave or leave maternity, as soon as you meet the conditions for entitlement to these benefits;

– Coverage in the event of an employee from the first day of your work in alternation

The gap year is an optional period in which the student takes part in a higher education temporarily suspends it in order to acquire a personal experience, either from a host organization or from an educational establishment in France or in a foreign

Within the same cycle or between two, the length of a gap year can vary from one to two academic semesters (semesters are understood to mean an indivisible period of 6 months starting necessarily at the same time as a university semester)

During this gap, your social protection depends on your situation.

– If you are training in a different field, while residing in France, without exercise of a paid professional activity, you remain attached to your plan current.

– If you have a salaried job, you are affiliated to the scheme to which this job falls (general scheme or agricultural scheme).  To find out more, see our article you are employee or the site of the Mutualité sociale agricole (MSA).

– If you exercise a self-employed activity, you are affiliated to the general scheme.  To find out more, see our section “You have a self-employed / non-salaried job”).

– If you devote yourself only to volunteering or have no activity professional while remaining on French territory, you remain attached to the social security that previously provided your support (unless you have more age 24, in this situation, you are covered by the general scheme) for more information, see our article “Unemployed, the terms of your support

If you are going abroad, refer to the articles corresponding to the activity you will get there: expatriate employee, student

– If you go as part of an international volunteering your social protection will be organized by the organization managing your mission (Business France, DGTrésor, and MEAE).  Consult the page Remuneration Retirement social coverage of Volunteering International website civiweb.com gathers the information you need. When you resume your studies, you will inform your thigh by filling out the form

Application for entitlement to health insurance (PDF) (form S1106): in the box B Applicant’s situation >> you will tick “Other” and specify “Return of VI >> as well as the date of your return to France.  You will attach the corresponding supporting document issued by the organization managing your mission.

YOU COMPLETE OR STOP YOUR STUDIES IN 2019

You have finished your studies and started a professional activity.

If you were already attached to the general scheme and you start a salaried activity, you do not have to do anything.

If you were attached to a plan other than the general plan and you start a professional activity falling under this, you must send the Request for transfer (PDF) to the primary health insurance fund in your place of residence, accompanied by an identity card or a residence permit and a bank identity statement (RIB) established in your first and last names

If you start an activity as a farmer or agricultural employee, your social protection will be managed by the Mutualité sociale agricole (MSA) (external site).

If you create your activity as a self-employed person, you declare the existence of your company at business formalities center (CFE) which centralizes the documents in your registration request then forwards them to the various bodies concerned by the Creation of your business, including your health insurance fund.

If you do not yet have a job and you reside in France on a stable basis and regularly, you remain on your current plan until the age of 24.  You will then be covered by the general scheme, unless you have a professional activity you connected to another plan.  If you are a foreign student, you have maintained of rights one year from the expiration of your residence permit.

If you start a job that depends on a special scheme (civil servant for example), you must send the Transfer request form (PDF) to your new organization, accompanied by an identity document or a residence permit and a bank identity statement (RIB) established in your first and last names.

Contact the health insurance fund of your place of residence

To find the contact details of your health insurance fund, see the section Addresses and contacts.

You can also contact a health insurance advisor by phone by dialling 36 46 (service 0.06 € / min + call price), at your service from Monday to Friday to answer your questions and guide you through the process.

Keep your carte vitale.  You can update it every year, every change of situation and as soon as your health insurance fund asks you to do so.