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Constitutional Council Backs Most of France’s 2026 Social Security Budget, Nixes Work-Incapacity Redefinition

The ruling clears the last legal hurdle to promulgation, leaving core spending targets and patient pathways in place.

Overview

  • The Council struck down article 83 on the merits, finding the new definition of work incapacity risked denying some insured people indemnification if they could perform any other activity.
  • Nine provisions were removed as unrelated to a financing law without a judgment on their constitutionality, including a proposed financial penalty for clinicians who do not update patients’ shared medical records.
  • Challenges from roughly sixty LFI deputies and three other MPs targeted about ten of the law’s 114 articles following its mid-December parliamentary adoption.
  • The judges left intact contested elements such as the ONDAM health-spending target, limits on sick-leave duration, and a preventive accompaniment pathway for patients at risk of long-term conditions.
  • With the decision published on December 30, the financing law now proceeds to presidential promulgation.