Program delivery update: Functional guidance on the Resettlement Assistance Program now modernized

June 19, 2019

The information that was contained in Part 2 of chapter IP 3, In-Canada Processing of Convention Refugees Abroad and Members of the Humanitarian Protected Persons Abroad Classes, can now be found in the service delivery section of the program delivery instructions (PDIs).

Links to the new Resettlement Assistance Program (RAP) PDIs have been added in the updated instructions, and existing links to Part 2 of chapter IP 3 have been updated to link to the new RAP PDIs.

New instructions

• Resettlement Assistance Program (RAP)
• Immigration categories eligible for support
• Exceptions
• Qualifying for income support and eligibility period
• Roles and responsibilities
• Allowances
• Pro-rating and personal assets
• Calculating income support (cheque timeline)
• Delivering income support (issuing cheques)
• Calculating the 50% additional income incentive
• One-year window of opportunity and RAP income support
• Client monitoring
• Separated minors
• Overpayment and abuse
• Change of status (reassessments)
• Financial commitments and forecasts
• Stolen, lost or never-received cheques
• Secondary migration and self-destination