Program delivery update: Resettlement Assistance Program (RAP)
This section contains policy, procedures and guidance used by IRCC staff. It is posted on the department’s website as a courtesy to stakeholders.
July 27, 2021
Updates have been made to a number of pages within the Resettlement Assistance Program (RAP) Income Support PDIs based on recommendations resulting from recent audits of the program. The updates clarify and enhance existing instructions for officers administering the program, specifically as related to
- Secondary Migration
- One Year Window of Opportunity Program
- Overpayments
- File Preparation
Guidance has also been updated throughout to reflect the use of the Global Case Management System (GCMS) for the management of RAP Income support files.
Updated instructions
- Allowances
- Calculating income support (payment timeline)
- Calculating the 50% additional income incentive
- Delivering income support
- Eligibility: Qualifying for income support and eligibility period
- Eligibility: Exceptions
- Eligibility: Roles and responsibilities
- Income support management: Change of status (reassessments)
- Income support management: Financial commitments and forecasts
- Income support management: Monitoring
- Income support management: Overpayment
- Income support management: Secondary migration and self-destination
- Income support management: Stolen, lost or never-received cheques or direct deposits
- One-Year Window of Opportunity and RAP income support
- Pro-rating and personal assets
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