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Are you eligible for compensation? It is important to know if you are a member of the Survivor Class or the Descendant Class. Review eligibility details or take the Survivor Claims Assessment and Estate Claims Assessment to find out.
Survivor Claims Assessment Tool
Select this tool if you are a Day Scholar submitting a claim for yourself or by your legally appointed representative.
Estate Claims Assessment Tool
Select this tool if you are submitting a claim on behalf of a Day Scholar who passed away on or after May 30, 2005.
Classes
Each Day Scholar who attended an Indian Residential School (IRS) during the day only (but did not sleep there overnight) is eligible to apply for a $10,000 Day Scholar Compensation Payment.
For a list of Indian Residential Schools which had, or might have had Day Scholars, please see Schedule E or the Long Form Notice. The full list is divided into two:
- List 1, which includes IRSs confirmed to have had Day Scholars; and
- List 2, which includes IRSs not known to have had Day Scholars
To be eligible, you must have attended the IRS between the dates stated on the Schedule E list.
If you attended an IRS either before or after the dates listed, this means you are not eligible for this settlement and should not apply. If you attended a school listed on Schedule E after the transfer date, you may have been included in the Federal Indian Day School Class Action: https://indiandayschools.com/en/
In cases where a Day Scholar has died on or after May 30, 2005, a claim can be submitted on behalf of a deceased Day Scholar by the estate Executor/Administrator/Trustee/Liquidator, or if there is no estate Executor/Administrator/Trustee/Liquidator, the highest priority living heir.
Survivor Class Members will also be eligible to apply for funding in the future from the Day Scholars Revitalization Fund to support healing, wellness, education, language, culture, heritage and commemoration.
You are a member of the Descendant Class if you are a natural or adopted child of a Survivor Class Member. Only Survivor Class Members are eligible for the $10,000 individual compensation payment.
Funding will be available under the Day Scholars Revitalization Fund which is currently being established. There is not a process for applying for benefits at this time. Both Descendant and Survivor Class Members will be able to apply to access funding from the Revitalization Fund.
Descendant Class Members will be eligible to apply for funding in the future from the Day Scholars Revitalization Fund to support healing, wellness, education, language, culture, and commemoration.
The Revitalization Fund will be used to support healing, wellness, education, language, culture, heritage, and commemoration, and will be managed by an independent not-for-profit society that is independent of Canada and Class Counsel. Canada or Class Counsel are not involved in making decisions on who receives funding through the Day Scholars Revitalization Fund.
For more information, see Compensation and Funding.
You can search and filter Schools Lists, explore the map of schools or reference Schedule E to check if a school you attended is on the list.
