Get your own training paid for: how to apply for funding from the FIFPL!

What's the difference between the FIFPL and the CPF?

You will also have a CPF budget, but the fifpl is a separate fund. You receive money into your CPF every year, which cumulates if you don't use it. The fifpl fund is use-it-or-lose-it: you need to use your budget during the year or else it's gone, there is no cumulation. CPF is limited to training which has some kind of certification at the end, whereas the Fifpl allows you to do other training related to your business.

This is why I suggest that people look at using their fifpl funding first before going to their CPF account. You can use your Fifpl account to do any of my courses.

How do I know if I'm eligible to receive FIFPL funding?

You need to have been in business for more than one year and then you are eligible for an amount depending on how much you paid towards the training fund in the last year. (This is the new since September 2025, although their website has not been updated to reflect this, so who knows if they are applying it or not!)

To find out if you pay into the fifpl and how much you paid, go to the Urssaf site where you do your declarations, click on attestations and request the "Attestation de contribution formation professionnelle". This paper will show you how much you have paid in cotisations for training (don't worry, even if you only paid 5€ in training cotisations, you can still get more than that in return for training. For AE formateurs, it should say "FIFPL" as the body you paid your cotisations to.

How does the FIFPL funding work?

• You put in your application through their online portal: see the video below.

• Once you've put in the application, you have to wait for up to 8 weeks for an answer.

• You need to pay for the training upfront. Once the training is over, the organisme de formation will complete a form to say that you have done the training. You upload this to the online portal.

• The FIFPL will refund the money directly to you.

There are of course some restrictions: you'll need to do the training with a Qualiopi-certified organisation and it needs to be connected to the training topics for your sector. Your sector is whatever you identified with your Code NAF.

How to apply for FIFPL funding, step by step: