Changes in Your Situation During the Year

If you receive advance payments each month, you must inform us of any change in your situation as soon as possible.

Move

The amount of the tax credit you may claim varies depending on the type of dwelling in which you live and on your rent. Therefore, moving may have an impact on the amount of tax credit to which you are entitled.

If you move, you must file a new application for advance payments and provide us with a copy of:

• your new lease, if you are moving into an apartment building
• your new lease and the schedule to the lease, if you are moving into a senior citizens’ residence

Death

When a person dies, we must stop the payments (if the person was living alone) or adjust them (if the person was living in a conjugal relationship). We must be informed of the date of death of the recipient or the recipient’s spouse as soon as possible to:

• prevent an overpayment of the tax credit that will have to be repaid
• ensure that the spouse continues receiving advance payments

New spouse or separation

You must inform us if:

• you have a new spouse
• you and your spouse became separated

Such changes will affect the amount of advance payments you are entitled to receive. Also, if you have a new spouse, we must know who will receive the advance payments.

Changes in your family income

You must inform us as soon as possible if your family income changes during the year because it may affect the amount of advance payments you are entitled to receive.

The tax credit is reduced by 3% of the portion of family income that is over $52,080. The reduction is $2.50 per month for each $1,000 over that limit.

Modification or renewal of the lease

As soon as a change is made to the conditions in your lease (for example, a service is added or withdrawn, or the rent changes), you must file a new application for advance payments and enclose the notice of modification of your lease specifying the change. In the application form, you must indicate the period during which the new conditions apply (start date and end date).

You must also file a new application for advance payments when you renew your lease even if the conditions in the lease do not change.

We will send you a new application form for advance payments a few weeks before the end of your lease so that you can complete the form and send it with your notice of renewal of the lease.