Managed by the Caisse nationale des Allocations familiales (Cnaf), the family branch is present throughout France thanks to its network of 101 family allowance offices.
The Family branch is one of the five components of the general social security system
Social Security scheme, along with Sickness, Occupational Risks, Retirement and
Recovery. The Government and the Parliament determine the missions of the branch, the benefits it
The Government and Parliament determine the branch's missions, the benefits it pays and its resources. The Family branch covers
three main areas:
- Support for families (family allowances, financing of individual and collective childcare individual and collective childcare for infants, children and young people, policies to support parenthood);
- personal housing assistance;
- solidarity benefits (RSA, activity allowance, disabled adults' allowance (Aah)).
- Legal benefits: these are mainly financial aid paid in the form of income supplements (e.g., social security, social security, etc.). income supplements (family benefits, etc.) or substitute income (Aah, Rsa). (Aah, Rsa);
- non-statutory social action benefits: aid for the investment and operation of facilities and services and services (crèches, leisure centres, social centres), support for families in difficulty social centres), support for families in difficulty (holiday assistance, multiple births) multiple births), support for parenthood.
- developing, maintaining and coordinating the branch's information systems Family branch,
- ensuring IT production,
- promoting technological innovation in the service of the professions.
