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Originally Posted by Locke
What? Can you elaborate a little? Because the Federal Disability Tax Credit is just that, a Tax Credit, it has to be applied against Taxable income.
Of which AISH is not.
If one were to collect AISH and have a DTC, the DTC would do absolutely nothing for that individual's Tax Burden. It could be transferred to a relative or caregiver though.
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There is a new up to $200 a month payment from the feds for the disabled, but you have to qualify and meet income tests(which look to be fairly stringent). If your disability qualifies you, and you make so little survival is a challenge, you get the money. Except in Alberta, because Smith has decided since AISH pays out more than similar programs in other provinces, only AISH recipients will have that clawed back if the feds pay. Basically a way to take federal dollars back.
I haven't looked and compared provincial programs, but the reality is this is petty penny bull#### that exemplifies the cruelty of their point. And it's even grosser considering all the stuff they do waste money on that could have been cut instead, if the money was the point. But it's not. The cruelty is the point.
Imagine planning to have an extra $200 a month, the hopefulness of maybe being able to treat yourself to something small for the first time in a decade, or pay for a piece of equipment or medication that helps make your day just a little less ####, and then to have these ####os yank it back.
But hey, lightbulbs.