Since 1999, the CMU allows all French people and residents in France for at least 3 months to benefit from free care from doctors and hospitals. The CMU-C (universal-complementary health coverage) is a free complementary health insurance that takes care of what is not covered by the compulsory health insurance schemes. As part of the coordinated care pathway, it allows you to benefit from 100% coverage of health expenses.
“The ceiling of the CMU-C, and consequently that of the ACS (aid for complementary health), will be revalued by 8.3% on July 1” (including 1.3% linked to inflation), has announced the ministry this Monday, June 17.
This revaluation “will allow 750,000 additional people – 400,000 new beneficiaries of the CMU-C and 350,000 of the ACS – to benefit from supplementary aid”, indicates the ministry.
This revaluation was announced in January by Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault during the Interministerial Committee for the Fight against Exclusion. Before revaluation, to benefit from the CMU-C, a single person must not have income greater than 7,934 euros per year.
For the ACS, this same ceiling is 10,711 euros. According to the CMU fund, approximately 763,000 people benefited from ACS in 2011 and 4.3 million from CMU-C.
