Financial assistance

The Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles has an in-house financial assistance office to serve the student clientele at all of its campuses. The person in charge at each office can assist students by phone, MOI or video conference call.

Each campus has video conferencing equipment the students can use to speak confidentially with the institution’s financial assistance manager.

Students can contact one of the following people to set up an appointment or obtain financial assistance:

The CÉGEPGIM institutional student financial assistance manager

• Informs and assists students in their efforts  (explanatory videos) to obtain financial support via the loans and bursaries program.
• Informs students about the loans and bursaries program’s eligibility requirements;
• Evaluates financial assistance (assessment simulator);
• Helps students when the time comes to:

ü  Complete their financial assistance applications (Online Services).

ü  Complete various other forms,

ü  Identify their student category and provide them with evidence of their status as independent (self-supporting) students,

ü  Transmit the documents in their files (digital transmission),

• Assists parents – spouses – sponsors when the time comes for them to complete their declarations;
• Provides information about some one-time and monthly expenses for which claims need to be presented to the student financial assistance office (expenses for the purchase of visual aids, medical costs, expenses associated with the lack of public transit, required short-term internships)
• Provides information about programs, measures, and rights that can be obtained at the student financial assistance office

ü  Support programs for loan repayment:

• Deferred payment plan
• Loan remission program  

ü  Explore program

ü  Special needs allowance program

ü  Measures to facilitate the conciliation between student and family life

ü  Appeals and remedies

   Informs students about the various bursaries they can apply for via the Omnivox portal (financial assistance community) or the College website.