Last-resort Financial Assistance and Social Support

Emploi-Québec services fall into two categories: financial assistance and individual assistance. Financial assistance is provided through social solidarity services that ensure implementation and administration of last-resort financial assistance programs. These services are designed to support low-income individuals and families by encouraging them to enter the labour market and preventing them from relying on last-resort financial assistance. Social solidarity services provide assistance to individuals through personalized support designed to help recipients become independent and join the labour market.

Financial assistance

Last-resort financial assistance

• Basic benefit
• Additional allowances for persons with a limited capacity for employment
• Special benefits
• Adjustments for dependent children
• Claim slip

Other

• Income support under the Youth Alternative Program
• Financial support for destitute pregnant minors

Individual assistance

• Support and referral to employment assistance services with a view to labour market entry.
• Support and referral to outside organizations institutional and community) with a view to social reintegration.
• Support for young people and referral to a youth employment forum (CJE).
• Support services for young parents under the Ma place au soleil  measure to guide them toward training in trades and occupations in demand.

Local and regional initiatives targeted at groups of individuals with specific problems in common.