In force: 2021-10-13
115. A person who is a victim who has received financial assistance compensating a loss of income or an indemnity for total temporary disability under the Crime Victims Compensation Act (chapter I-6) and who receives financial assistance for vocational reintegration may benefit from additional financial assistance compensating a loss of income for a maximum period of 2 years. The person who is a victim is entitled to the additional financial assistance if(1) a health assessment establishes that they have functional limitations preventing them from holding the employment, performing the work or assuming the functions of an occupation from which they derive an income that they had on the day on which their disability giving entitlement to financial assistance compensating a loss of income began, or that they have sequelae from the criminal offence they suffered that prevent them from resuming certain tasks of a professional nature;
(2) they are participating in a vocational reintegration activity.
The parent of, or the person having parental authority over, a child who has suffered interference with their integrity due to the commission of a criminal offence against that child cannot, or that child while acting as an intervening person referred to in subparagraph 1 or 2 of the first paragraph of section 16 of the Act may not benefit from such additional financial assistance.
1266-2021O.C. 1266-2021, s. 115.