Death and child assistance

• The Registrar of Civil Status informs us automatically of the death of a parent or a spouse.
• If the spouse died outside Québec and the Registrar of Civil Status has not been notified, you must provide the Régie with proof of death.
• If the deceased was receiving child assistance payments or the supplement for handicapped children, those payments will stop. The child's new caregiver must make a new Application for Child Assistance Payments.
• If a beneficiary's spouse dies, the child assistance payments will be recalculated to take into account the new situation (single-parent family). You can use the simulation tool CalculAide to get an estimate of the new amounts that could be paid.

Other useful link

• The section What To Do in the Event of Death  on the Gouvernement du Québec portal tells you what you need to do following the death of a family member.