Loi du 17 mai 1985 portant renouvellement des mesures de reconversion économique et sociale dans le commerce et l'artisanat.

AI-assisted research summary: This preamble records the formal adoption of the law and the prior opinions and decisions referenced before it is ordered and enacted.

AI-assisted research summary: This provision states that the law’s aim is to support structural adaptation in craft and commerce sectors by encouraging economic and social reconversion of operators facing deficient production, service, or distribution conditions, or serious difficulty adapting to technical and economic change.

AI-assisted research summary: The State may grant a temporary monthly financial allowance called a departure indemnity, subject to annual budget credits.

AI-assisted research summary: The aid under Article 2 is reserved for natural persons who carry on an artisan or commercial activity as their main independent activity. A widow may also receive the aid if she continued the business without interruption after her husband's death and the deceased spouse met all legal conditions.

AI-assisted research summary: L’aide is conditional on the beneficiary meeting several eligibility conditions, including age, stopping the relevant activity, activity duration, and income limits.

AI-assisted research summary: The monthly severance indemnity is set at 75% of the reference minimum wage for beneficiaries with family responsibilities, and 90% of the base amount for beneficiaries without family responsibilities.

AI-assisted research summary: To get the departure allowance under this law, the interested person must submit an application to the minister responsible for middle classes.

AI-assisted research summary: The minister responsible for the middle classes allocates the departure allowance under this law, after receiving advice from a commission that examines aid requests.

AI-assisted research summary: The recipient of a departure indemnity must remain insured with the listed pension and sickness funds, and the indemnity cannot be combined with an invalidity pension.

AI-assisted research summary: Aid recipients must repay all or part of the aid if they got it using information they knew was inaccurate or incomplete, or if they did not follow the obligations imposed by the law.

AI-assisted research summary: The departure allowance becomes due from the first day of the month after the applicant meets all required conditions, but not earlier than the first day of the month after the application is made.

AI-assisted research summary: If a departure-benefit recipient dies first, the surviving unmarried spouse is entitled to the departure indemnity, in addition to the widow’s pension, until the deceased spouse would have reached age 65.

AI-assisted research summary: Departure indemnity is reduced when it overlaps with certain pensions, and the applicable caps increase by 20% for each additional eligible child beyond the first, without exceeding the full indemnity rate.

AI-assisted research summary: This article says the law applies for ten years and must be observed and executed by those concerned.