Important: You can now submit a Claim for the Removed Child Class and Removed Child Family Class. Learn more about how to complete a Claim.
Nine Classes are included in this Settlement. Each of the nine Classes is unique and will have its own Claims Process that requires approval by the Federal Court. The Claims Period for each Class will open in phases.
The Claims Process for each Class will provide details on how to submit a Claim for compensation. Claimants who may be eligible for more than one Class will have to submit a separate Claim Form for each Class.
Learn more about each Class
Claims Period Open
Removed Child Class
First Nations individuals who were removed from their homes as Children between April 1, 1991, and March 31, 2022, while living on reserve or in the Yukon, and placed into care funded by Indigenous Services Canada.
Claims Period Open
Removed Child Family Class
The Removed Child Family Class includes Caregiving Parents or Caregiving Grandparents (whether biological or adoptive) of the Children of the Removed Child Class.
Claims Process Not Yet Available
Kith Child Class
First Nations individuals who were placed by a Caregiving Parent or Caregiving Grandparent off reserve with a non-family caregiver, while the Child was an Ordinarily Resident on Reserve1 or living in the Yukon and where a Child Welfare Authority was involved in the placement between April 1, 1991, and March 31, 2022.
Claims Process Not Yet Available
Kith Family Class
Caregiving Parents or Caregiving Grandparents of the Kith Child Class.
Claims Process Not Yet Available
Jordan’s Principle Class
First Nations individuals who suffered the highest level of impact (including pain, suffering or harm of the worst kind) due to a delay, denial or service gap for an essential service from Canada while they were a Child, between December 12, 2007, and November 2, 2017.
Claims Process Not Yet Available
Jordan’s Principle Family Class
Caregiving Parents or Caregiving Grandparents of the Children of the Jordan’s Principle Class.
Claims Process Not Yet Available
Trout Child Class
First Nations individuals who faced a delay, denial or service gap for an essential service from Canada while they were a Child between April 1, 1991, and December 11, 2007.
Claims Process Not Yet Available
Trout Family Class
Caregiving Parents or Caregiving Grandparents of the Children of the Trout Child Class.
Claims Process Not Yet Available
Essential Service Class
First Nations individuals who were confirmed to have needed an essential service and did not receive that service or experienced a delay or service gap in receiving it from Canada while they were a Child, between December 12, 2007, and November 2, 2017.
[1] Ordinarily Resident on Reserve means that you lived most of the year on a First Nations reserve. You may have been temporarily living off reserve for education or work or to receive social services or other essential care, but as long as your main residence was on reserve, you are considered to have been Ordinarily Resident on Reserve.