FAQ

Anyone living in a care home for the elderly (CIPA, supervised accommodation) or an approved nursing home in Luxembourg whose financial means are insufficient to pay the cost of accommodation.

The application can be submitted upon admission to the institution. The first page of the application form must be completed by the institution.

The only persons authorised to sign the form are: the applicant or their legal representative (guardian, curator, legal administrator).

• You have less than 629,23 € index 968,04  of your income after payment of the net accommodation price.
• Your assets (bank accounts, shares, bonds, etc.) are less than 24,201 € index 968,04.

When only one of the spouses or partners is cared for in an institution, the spouse or partner remaining at home retains a minimum income.

This income is set:

• at the level of the minimum social wage, when the person concerned has their own income;
• at the amount of the benefits provided for by the REVIS, in the absence of any income of their own.

In addition, housing costs, i.e. rent or mortgage repayments, are deductible from income up to a monthly ceiling of 1,936.08 index 968,04.

No. Coverage is limited to the amount corresponding to the average monthly rate for single rooms in approved accommodation facilities, which currently stands at 3,568.57 €.

When the rate charged exceeds this ceiling, the National Solidarity Fund (FNS) pays a supplement calculated on the basis of the maximum amount provided for by law.

Real estate assets, whether located in Luxembourg or abroad, are also taken into account. Their value is assessed in the form of a life annuity, in accordance with the official scales in force.

The supplement is paid directly to the institution, which then deducts it from the amount invoiced to the beneficiary.

Persons who are not nationals of Luxembourg, another Member State of the European Union or the Swiss Confederation, and who do not have stateless status or international protection, must prove that they have resided in Luxembourg for at least five years during the last twenty years or hold long-term resident status. Exceptions are made for certain family members of nationals of the European Union, the European Economic Area, Switzerland or beneficiaries of international protection.

Nationals of the European Union, the European Economic Area or Switzerland, as well as their family members, are not eligible for the supplement during the first three months of their stay in Luxembourg.

Furthermore, persons already covered by provisions relating to the free movement of persons and immigration are not eligible for the supplement.

Following the death of a beneficiary of the supplement, the Fund may request repayment of the sums paid, but only within certain limits.

When a bequest has been made, the Fund may claim reimbursement from the legatee, without exceeding the value of the assets received.

If the estate passes to the surviving spouse, partner or direct descendants, no reimbursement is required on the first 287,962.85 € index 968.04. Furthermore, if one of these relatives continues to live in the deceased's home, the Fund cannot request reimbursement for this property for as long as this situation continues, even if a mortgage may be registered to preserve its rights.

In the absence of a spouse, partner or direct descendants, no reimbursement is requested on the first 1,742.24 € NI 968.04 of the estate.

When the financial situation of a beneficiary of the supplement improves significantly after the aid has been granted, this is referred to as a ‘change in circumstances’.

In this case, the Fund will ask the beneficiary to repay all or part of the amounts paid under the supplement.

If the beneficiary of the supplement has made a donation after their application or in the ten years preceding it, the Fund may request reimbursement of the sums paid to the person who received the donation, up to the value of the assets donated at the time of the donation.