Social Security - E forms

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• E-forms

E-forms allow you to retain your social rights (sickness, accident, maternity, retirement pensions, unemployment benefits and family allowances) when you come to France. These forms serve to add up and/or transfer your rights between your country and France.

The main E-forms are:

• The E100 forms concerning your benefit rights in case of sickness, accident or maternity
• The E300 forms concerning your rights to unemployment benefits
• The E400 forms concerning your rights to family allowance

It is imperative that you obtain these from each relevant department in your country before your departure.

As regards jobseekers, there are 2 important forms of which you should be aware:

• Form E301 is a form which provides evidence of the time over which you have been paying contributions in your country of origin. This allows you to add up your periods of contribution between two countries. It is only useful if you have contributed to the French unemployment scheme. This form is to be requested from the public employment service in your country before your departure
• Form E303 allows you, if you have unemployment rights in your country of origin, to transfer your rights to France for a limited period of 3 months. This form is to be requested from the public employment service of your country before your departure. You have to have been registered as a jobseeker for more than 4 weeks to be able to request one. Once this form is dated, you have 7 working days in which to present it to the French public employment service Pôle emploi

Important: Since June 2004, the E 111 and E 119 forms have been replaced by the “European health insurance card”. This can be obtained from your social security office.

Text last edited on: 03/2010