Eligibility for Family Allowance

To be eligible for the Family Allowance, all of the following conditions must be met:

You or your spouse are responsible for the care and education of a child under the age of 18.
The child lives or lived with you at the time when he or she was temporarily institutionalized by an establishment in the health and social services sector.
You or your spouse live in Québec (in accordance with the Québec Taxation Act).
You or your spouse have one of the following statuses:
- Canadian citizen
- permanent resident
- temporary resident who has been living in Canada for at least 18 months
- protected person.

You are not entitled to the Family Allowance if:

you are the child's foster family
you are exonerated from paying tax by Revenue Québec
you are waiting for a protected person status (refugee claimant)
your child is married or in a de facto (common law) union and the child's spouse was entitled to a transfer from one spouse to the other

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