The French public budget › Who spends · 2025
Social Security
The funds that pay pensions, reimburse healthcare, and pay family benefits and unemployment insurance.
803.5bn€
spent in 2025
What it pays for, in 2024
Pensions and survivors' benefits47%362.0bn€Health, sickness and disability40%312.8bn€Family and children6%49.7bn€
Unemployment6%44.7bn€Social debt interest and other spending1%9.3bn€Paid on behalf of others
The family allowance fund (CAF) also pays these benefits for the State and the départements: they are counted with them, not in Social Security.
Housing benefits, paid by the CAF on behalf of the State21.0bn€
Earned income supplement (RSA), paid by the CAF on behalf of the départements18.0bn€
Activity bonus, paid by the CAF on behalf of the State9.0bn€
Disabled adults' allowance and other minimum benefits, paid by the CAF on behalf of the State6.5bn€
Where its money comes from, in 2024
Employers' social contributions293.6bn€38%CSG and CRDS (levied on all income)163.2bn€21%Contributions of employees, self-employed and other insured130.8bn€17%VAT share assigned to social security57.8bn€7%Payroll taxes28.4bn€4%The 10 others
Sales and services26.6bn€3%Transfers received from other administrations24.6bn€3%Excise and consumption taxes17.9bn€2%Taxes on corporate profits9.8bn€1%Taxes on insurance premiums7.9bn€1%Other taxes on production6.3bn€< 1%Property income (dividends, interest, rents)5.7bn€< 1%Other transfers received (EU funds, fines, claims…)2.2bn€< 1%Other taxes on products2.2bn€< 1%Employer's share of its own staff pensions (imputed)1.4bn€< 1%Source: Eurostat, government accounts 2025 ↗, Eurostat, government spending by function, 2024 ↗.