{"id":2964,"date":"2023-02-17T15:50:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T20:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/?p=2964"},"modified":"2025-06-06T16:56:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T20:56:33","slug":"social-assistance-glasses-are-now-more-affordable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/aide-sociale-lunettes-encore-plus-accessibles\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Assistance: Prescription Glasses Are Even More Affordable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the prices of prescription glasses offered at Bonhomme \u00e0 lunettes have been almost the same since 2007? Did you know that these prices were set based on the Qu\u00e9bec government\u2019s social assistance reimbursement guidelines? Did you know that these prices are the same for everyone, regardless of income? What does all this mean? That even if the price of everything seems to go up these days, all prescription glass wearers can save on the purchase of something so essential. For those on social assistance, here's a good news: our glasses are really accessible.<\/p>\n<h3>ACCESSIBLE GLASSES<\/h3>\n<p>As our prices are set according to the reimbursement chart, here's what it costs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get glasses (with basic options*) starting at <strong>20$<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Get glasses with progressive lenses starting at <strong>50$<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>SOCIAL ASSISTANCE: A HOW-TO<\/h3>\n<p>If you are on social assistance and want to get glasses from us, here's how to go about it! It\u2019s simple.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/social-assistance\/\">Read all about it here<\/a>, but basically :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get your eyes examined by an optometrist<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quebec.ca\/famille-et-soutien-aux-personnes\/aide-sociale-et-solidarite-sociale\/prestations-de-base\/examen-vue\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get the necessary form completed<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Come see us<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By following these steps, you can take advantage of the \u201c20-50 Formula\u201d offered at any of our service points. It's our way to help make glasses affordable to everyone, because seeing clearly is not a luxury.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>*At the request of l'Ordre des opticiens, we have to add this: stock lenses (ar et rae en 1.5, 1.56 and 1.6. and surface lenses simple vision in cr39, bifocals rd 22 en cr 39et les st-28 in cr39.)  Does not include progressive lenses which will cost $30 out of pocket after the government reimbursement.\u00a0<strong>Does not include progressive lenses, which will cost $50 more than the amount reimbursed by the government.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saviez-vous que les prix du Bonhomme \u00e0 lunettes sont presque les m\u00eames depuis 2007? Qu\u2019ils ont \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9termin\u00e9s en fonction de la charte de remboursement de l\u2019aide sociale ? Et que les prix sont les m\u00eames pour tous, peu importe le revenu? Tout \u00e7a fait en sorte que m\u00eame si tout augmente, tous les porteurs&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/aide-sociale-lunettes-encore-plus-accessibles\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Social Assistance: Prescription Glasses Are Even More Affordable<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[84,80],"class_list":["post-2964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualites","tag-aide-sociale","tag-prix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2964"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7669,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions\/7669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}