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Before leaving Québec to travel or study, or before moving abroad, check your situation with regard to health insurance and prescription drug insurance.

You must join your new employer’s private prescription drug plan, unless your drugs are covered under another private plan.

You have different ways of obtaining information (online, telephone, in writing) about the health insurance plan and the Public Prescription Drug Insurance Plan, among others.

You must still have prescription drug insurance coverage when you are unemployed or temporarily absent from work (example: illness, maternity).

Students age 18 to 25 no longer studying full time cease to be covered by their parents’ prescription drug insurance and must take out insurance for themselves.

If you are covered by a private plan as part of your job, you have to check your prescription drug insurance when you retire.

You must check your prescription drug coverage when you no longer receive last-resort financial assistance.

You are not required to pay the annual premium for the Public Prescription Drug Insurance Plan if you were outside Québec from January 1 to December 31.

When you turn 65, you are automatically registered with the Public Prescription Drug Insurance Plan. If you are also eligible for a private plan, you have a choice to make.