Individuals
As a tenant or owner of a principal residence, you could receive financial assistance to guard against a danger or repair damage caused to your belongings during a disaster.
The “principal residence” is the place where you perform all of your everyday activities on an annual basis, such as a dwelling, a single-family home, a row house or a condominium.
Damage to a chalet or any building used for recreational purposes is not eligible.
Before Applying for Financial Assistance
Before applying for financial assistance, you must first contact your insurer to check whether your insurance contract covers your damage. If the damage suffered is not insurable, you must inform your municipality so that it addresses an application for financial assistance to the Ministère de la Sécurité publique (MSP), if this has not been done already. If the municipality’s application is accepted, the MSP will implement a financial assistance program.
Spring Flooding: What to Do when Returning Home (Printable Documents)
- 2011 Spring Flooding in the Montérégie Region - What you Should Do when Returning Home (132 KB)
- Floodings: Precautions for the Use of Drinking Water (68 KB)
- Household Mould: Get Rid of It! - An important health issue (619 KB)
- Mold in the Home after Water Damage (56 KB)
- Floods in Québec: when Water Retreats, Caution is still Advised with Electricity and Gas! (56 KB)
- Flooding: Disinfection of the House (58 KB)
- Sewage Water Back-up: Disinfection of the House (59 KB)
- Floods: Water from Private Wells (55 KB)
- After a Flood: Furnace Oil Spillage in Basements (59 KB)
- What to Do before Restoring Power: Flooding and Electrical Safety (34 KB)
- Perishables and Non-Perishables: Lengths of Time Various Food will Keep (87 KB)
- Which Food to Keep and which to Throw Out after a Power Outage or Flood (35 KB)
- Psycho-social Services offered to People affected by the Floods (317 KB)
