Funding: Apprenticeship Completion Grant – Eligibility
Change to Apprenticeship Completion Grant
Note: The Apprenticeship Completion Grant (ACG) ended March 31, 2025. Applications are no longer being accepted. If you completed your apprenticeship on or after March 31, 2024, your deadline to submit an ACG application was March 31, 2025. You had to submit an application by this date, even if you had not received supporting documents from your apprenticeship authority. The deadline for submitting supporting documents is 12 months from your application deadline date but no later then March 31, 2026.
The Government of Canada will continue to support apprentices financially as they are unemployed and progress through their technical training. Apprentices can access Employment Insurance benefits and up to $20,000 in interest-free Canada Apprentice Loans. Apprentices can apply for a CAL as early as 3 months before the start of their technical training and can receive funding as early as day one of their training while they wait for their Employment Insurance claim to be processed for payment.
Project funding for organizations providing apprenticeship support to individuals is available under the Canadian Apprenticeship Strategy.
Visit Supports for skilled trades and apprenticeship for information.
In order to be eligible for the grant, you had to successfully complete your apprenticeship program by March 31, 2025.
To be eligible for the ACG, you had to:
- be a Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or a protected person
- not be a high school student
- demonstrate completion of an apprenticeship program with acceptable provincial/territorial ACG supporting document, within an eligible apprenticeship program
- be a certified journeyperson who completed your apprenticeship training program in a designated Red Seal trade
Eligibility while attending school
You could have applied for the ACG if you met the eligibility requirements and were a:
- registered apprentice enrolled in adult learning classes
- registered apprentice taking professional development courses, or
- Quebec apprentice completing your vocational training
Deadline to submit an application
Completion date between January 1, 2021 and March 30, 2024
- Application deadline was 12 months from completion date
- Deadline for submitting supporting proof document(s) is 12 months from application deadline
Example
If your completion date was February 12, 2023, you had until February 12, 2024 to apply and until February 12, 2025, to provide supporting proof document(s).
Completion date on or after March 31, 2024
- Application deadline was March 31, 2025. You should have applied even if you had not received supporting documents from your apprenticeship authority.
- Deadline for submitting supporting proof document(s) is 12 months from application deadline but no later then March 31, 2026.
Example
If your completion date was January 12, 2025, you had until March 31, 2025 to apply. The last date to submit supporting proof documents is March 31, 2026.