Your employer declares your periods of employment to CRPN on a yearly basis. The amount of earnings credited to your career account is that of your Retirement Pension and Insurance fund contribution basis. The periods and wages reported by your employer will be added to your career history statement (“relevé de carrière”), which you can access through your personal account.

You can check that any given year has been correctly credited to your career account by comparing the amount for that year to the sum total of all of your gross wages liable to (Retirement Pension or Insurance Fund) contributions which appear on each of your payslips for that tax year.

Your employment for any given tax year will usually be credited to your account during the summer of the following tax year. However, we invite you to consult our News which can supplement this answer.

You can view your career history statement (“relevé de carrière”) and/or your notice of notional entitlements in your personal account. (They are no longer sent out by standard mail)

When you pay CRPN contributions, your payslip shows your CRPN contribution withholdings (employee’s share) for the 3 CRPN-administered funds (Retirement Pension, Insurance, and Top-up).

There are several reasons why a given tax year may have been left off or credited only partially to your account. These include:

• • Processing of the annual declarations has not been finalised and they have not been validated.

The CRPN keeps you informed about the progress of the works via News.

• • The year 2020, for which validation of your activity may be delayed owing to the potential postponement of payment of employer’s contributions.

You can view the news of 14 december 2021 here.

• • If you did not have any air crew employment for that period (your employment contract was terminated or suspended, etc.)

Depending on your circumstances, you may be able to have these periods credited to your account. To learn more, please refer to our guide entitled Buybacks, contribution payments, and free credits as well as our special page on unemployment.

• • If your employer has not submitted their yearly employment report

Our Employers/ Collections department cannot credit your periods to your account until we have received this report.

• • If your employer has defaulted or is behind on their contribution payments

Please refer to the question What are my options if my employer has defaulted and to the special page on our website on this topic.

• • If you have periods of air crew employment in another country

Please refer to the question below, either “Can air crew employment in another European country be taken into account” or “Can air crew employment in a non-European country be taken into account,” which applies to your circumstances.

Pursuant to Article R6527-29 of the French Transport Code, service periods are only considered if the contributions provided for under Articles D6527-12 to D6527-20 of the French Transport Code have been paid for the salaries paid to crew members.

Up until 2020 periods, the crediting of all work periods and salaries are subject to the payment of all contributions owed.

When the employer has not paid all contributions, work periods (number of days) are credited in full to the crew member’s career and salaries are credited in proportion to deductions, whether employee contributions have been paid or not.

Crew members may buy back the portion of the salary not considered.

Pursuant to CRPN Board Decision no. 2020-29, service periods carried out as from 1st March 1999 for which employer and employee contributions have not been paid in full may only be corrected under the following conditions:

• to the extent of Retirement Fund deductions, whether these have been paid to the CRPN or not, provided that the employer has declared the crew member or that the payslips indicating the deductions are produced,
• in full, at any time, when all employer and employee contributions have been paid by the employer, the court-appointed administrator or yourself (if the employer no longer exists or the latter is the subject of insolvency proceedings).

No corrections may be made for periods during which it is found that the crew member’s CRPN membership circumstances, their employment declaration, contribution calculations or payments are a result of their will or their acceptance of a non-compliant situation which they were aware of.

As from 2021, when contributions have not been paid in full or in part, service periods will be credited annually based on the salaries declared by employers or, failing such, based on the proof supplied by the member of the deduction of employee contributions owed on their salary.

You have been employed as a professional air crew member in civil aviation in a European country other than France (European Union member State + Iceland + Liechtenstein + Norway + Switzerland + United Kingdom).

These periods can be taken into account pour une liquidation de vos droits under European coordination rules.

Make sure you keep all documentary evidence of these periods of employment (i.e. career history statements issued by the local retirement pension fund and certificates of employment).

Please refer to our informational guide on European coordination.

Only voluntary contributions can be paid on periods of employment in a non-European country, and they must be paid at the time of employment abroad. They cannot be credited to your account retroactively.

Please refer to our informational guide on Voluntary membership in 2026.