The support-payment collection program ensures that the amounts determined by a support judgment are collected and paid.

Support is an amount paid periodically to cover a child's or an ex-spouse's basic needs, such as:

• food
• housing
• heating
• clothing
• education

Scope of the support-payment collection program

The support-payment collection program is universal. It applies to all judgments ordinarily handed down in Québec that grant support to a child or an ex-spouse.

We:

• collect support payments from the person required to pay support (the payer of support);
• provide the support payments to the person who is entitled to them (the support recipient);
• index the support amount annually (unless the judgment specifies otherwise).

We do not:

• determine the amount of support;
• modify the amount of support;
• cancel support;
• change the terms of a judgment.

See the following pages for more information on how support is determined, modified, cancelled or suspended:

• Child support (Ministère de la Justice du Québec website)
• When a couple separates (Government of Québec website)