You can use the Service québécois de changement d'adresse to notify the Régie des rentes du Québec of your change of address. Thanks to the Service québécois de changement d'adresse, you can notify many government services of your new address in a single, secure operation.
Note
A single notice to the Régie des rentes du Québec is sufficient to make your change of address for
- a retirement pension;
- a surviving spouse’s pension;
- an orphan’s pension;
- a death benefit;
- a disability pension;
- a pension for a disabled person’s child.
An orphan’s pension is paid by the Régie des rentes du Québec to a person or organization that supports the minor child of a deceased person, provided the deceased contributed sufficiently to the Québec Pension Plan. The pension is paid until the child turns 18.
If the child is being supported by the surviving spouse, the orphan’s pension and the surviving spouse’s pension can be combined into a single payment.
However, only one pension is paid if both parents are deceased.
Clientele
A person or organization supporting the minor child of a deceased person. The expression child of a deceased person means
- a child who is related to the deceased by blood or by adoption;
- any other child who had been living with the deceased for at least one year and for whom the deceased stood in the place of a parent.
Conditions
The deceased person (parent of the child or person supporting the child) must have contributed sufficiently to the Québec Pension Plan.
If the deceased contributed to a pension plan in a country that has signed an international social security agreement with Québec, the contributory years under that plan are taken into account in determining whether the person has contributed sufficiently to the Québec Pension Plan.
Amount as of January 1, 2012
The amount of the orphan’s pension is $224,62 per month for each child. It is paid on the last working day of the month.
The orphan’s pension is taxable and must be reported in the child’s income. It is indexed annually.
