Application for Family Allowance Payments

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If one of these situations concerns you, you could be entitled to Family Allowance:

Birth outside Québec and adoption

You adopt a child.
Your child was born outside Québec, but lives with you in Québec.

Separation and child custody

You are not receiving Family Allowance payments in your name and you have at least 40% of custody time of the child following:

a separation
a change in custody
the parent's death.

New resident

You become a resident of Québec.
Your child returns to Québec.

Retraite Québec might ask you to complete an Application for Family Allowance Payments if you are in a situation other than those described above.

To file your application:

Access My Account

Other ways of filing your application

If you and, if applicable, your spouse have a Social Insurance Number (SIN), you can fill an application for Family Allowance online .
If you or, if applicable, your spouse do not have a Social Insurance Number (SIN), you must complete the Application for Family Allowance Payments form and send it online.

If your child was born in Québec, you do not need to file an application. When you send your newborn's birth certificate to the Directeur de l'état civil, you are automatically signed up to receive Family Allowance.

Family Allowance payments are made 4 times a year, that is, in January, April, July and October. You can also receive your allowance on a monthly basis if you file an application after you receive your first payment.

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