Do You Qualify?
Ultimately, it’s a matter of quality of life (QOL). For instance, here’s a list of common conditions that typically impact patients (QOL) enough to qualify for the Canadian disability tax credit and child disability benefit:
Addictions (illegal or prescription meds)
ADHD combined type (ADHD-C)
ADHD Primarily Hyperactive/Impulsive (ADHD, ADHD-PH/I)
ADHD Primarily Inattentive (ADD, ADHD-PI)
Agoraphobia (anxiety disorder)
Alzheimer’s disease
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s disease)
Angina
Anorexia nervosa
Anxiety
Arthritis
Asperger’s syndrome
Ataxia (Cerebellar Dysfunction)
Auditory Processing Disorder (APD)
Autism
Behçet’s disease
Bi-polar disorder (mood disorder)
Borderline personality disorder (BPD)
Bowel Incontinence
Bulimia nervosa
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Chromosome Abnormality
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)
Chronic pain Disorder
Colitis
Conduct Disorder (CD)
Coronary artery disease (CAD)
Cri-du-Chat syndrome (Deletion 5p Syndrome)
Crohn’s disease (Regional Enteritis)
De Vivo Disease (GLUT1 deficiency syndrome)
Dementia
Depression (Clinical, Major, Unipolar)
Developmentally Delayed (DD)
Diabetes
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Down Syndrome
Dressing (can’t dress or takes significantly longer)
Dysgraphia
Epilepsy
Feeding (can’t feed themselves or takes significantly longer)
Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
Fibromyalgia (FM)
Gambling Addiction
Gender identity disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
Glaucoma
Global Developmental Delay (GDD)
Hearing Disorder (unable to hear or takes significantly longer)
Hepatitis C
Huntington’s disease
Hypermobility syndrome
Hypothyroidism
Hypotonia
Infantile Spasms (Infant Epilepsy)
Intellectual Disability
Irritable Bowel syndrome (IBS)
Learning Disabilities (Special needs)
Mania
Mental illness
Microcephaly
Mild Intellectual disability (MID)
Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Myotonic Myopathy
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD)
Osteoarthritis
Panic Disorder
Parkinson’s disease
Personality disorder
Pervasive developmental disorder (PDD)
Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS)
Psychosis
Quadriplegic
Retinoschisis
Schizophrenia
Scoliosis
Seizure Disorder
Sleep Apnea
Sleep disorder
Speech disorder (unable to speak or takes significantly longer)
Specific developmental disorder (SDD)
Stroke
Substance Abuse
Tic disorder
Tourette syndrome
Eligible Disabilities
Did you know half a million eligible Canadians don’t claim their rightful disability benefits?
In addition to being put off by the CRA’s complex application processes, many Canadians don’t realize that their chronic condition meets the threshold for the Canadian Disability Tax Credit (DTC).
Claiming your rightful Canadian disability benefits isn’t necessarily tied to the name of your condition, but how severely it affects your day-to-day life. That means severe cases of otherwise commonplace conditions can qualify, while mild cases of less common ones may not. In order to be eligible to qualify:
- Your condition causes severe physical and/or mental impairment.
- Your impairment has persisted or will persist for at least one year.
- A medical practitioner (including but not limited to your family doctor) must certify the severity of your impairment on your Disability Tax Credit application.
Phone :
1-289-232-1331
Email :
info@ourcba.org
Fax :
info@ourcba.org
Address :
1-40 Bradwick Dr. Concord, ON L4J 1K9