Quebec offers aid to social assistance recipients affected by power outages

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The $75 payments are meant to cover food losses following last weekend’s violent storms.

Hydro workers were tending to tree branches on power lines in the Morin-Heights area on Tuesday May 24, 2022.
Hydro workers were tending to tree branches on power lines in the Morin-Heights area on Tuesday May 24, 2022. Photo by Dave Sidaway /Montreal Gazette

The Quebec government announced on Saturday it would be offering payments to cover food losses suffered by beneficiaries of social assistance programs during the last week’s power outages.

A week after violent storms hit Quebec, nearly 11,000 homes remain without electricity.

Households receiving social assistance that were without power for more than 24 hours are entitled to $75 per person up to a maximum of $300 for each family.

“It’s essential to support the most vulnerable people in our society,” Labor Minister Jean Boulet said in a statement.

Shortly after 8 pm on Saturday, more than 6,000 Hydro-Québec customers were still without power in the Laurentians.

On Friday night, Hydro-Québec said on Twitter its teams would work “all weekend to restore power as quickly as possible.”


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