CROUS - What is a "student carer"?

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Being a student and supporting a loved one who requires human assistance can make it complicated to succeed in one's studies.

What is a Student Carer?

A student carer is someone who regularly and frequently helps a close relative who is losing their independence due to age, a disability, a chronic or incapacitating illness, in order to provide support and carry out all or part of the acts or activities of daily living on a non-professional basis.

The loved one being helped can be: a family member (father, mother, grandfather or grandmother, brother or sister, spouse, child, etc.), your cohabiting partner, your PACS partner, or a person with whom you maintain close and stable ties.

Required Supporting Documents

The supporting documents can include:

• An attestation from a general practitioner or specialist mentioning the loved one's need for human assistance and confirming that you are providing this assistance.

• A notification from the CDAPH (Commission des Droits et de l'Autonomie des Personnes Handicapées) of the person with a disability, mentioning their need for human assistance.

• An official document justifying the family ties (family record book, marriage certificate, PACS, etc.) or a sworn statement from the person being helped certifying that you maintain close and stable ties with them.

Impact on CROUS

Since the start of the 2023-2024 academic year, you can benefit from 4 additional points of charge if you are helping a parent with a disability. "A disability, as defined by law, is any limitation of activity or restriction of participation in community life experienced by a person in their environment due to a substantial, lasting or definitive alteration of one or more physical, sensory, mental, cognitive or psychic functions, a multiple disability or an incapacitating health disorder." (Article L 114 of the Social Action Code).

Certain chronic illnesses are incapacitating. They may lead to the possibility of obtaining a right to aid through the C.D.A.P.H. and consequently to the obtaining of the 4 points of charge.

These points may allow you, depending on your situation:

• For non-scholarship students: to become eligible for the social criteria scholarship if you previously exceeded the resource thresholds.

• For scholarship students: to have the amount of your scholarship re-evaluated (change of tier).

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