Survivors' benefits

We offer a basic financial protection to the family members of a deceased person if he or she contributed sufficiently to the Québec Pension Plan. This financial protection includes 3 types of financial assistance that are part of the survivors' benefits under the Québec Pension Plan:

• a death benefit
• a surviving spouse's pension
• an orphan's pension

Survivors' benefits may be paid to the family members of the deceased or to third parties, provided the deceased contributed sufficiently to the Québec Pension Plan.

To find out more...

• Eligibility for survivors' benefits under the Québec Pension Plan 
• Death benefit 
• Surviving spouse's pension 
• Orphan's pension 

Other useful information

• What do retirement plans provide when a contributor dies?: Flash Retirement capsule