Documents checklist

Benefits

• PEI Essentials Benefit: how much can you get?

Disability

• Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH)
• BC Disability Assistance (Persons with Disabilities, PWD)
• Canada Disability Benefit
• Canada Disability Savings Grant and Bond (RDSP)
• Canada Pension Plan disability benefit
• Child Disability Benefit (CDB)
• Disability Tax Credit (DTC)
• Newfoundland and Labrador Disability Benefit: up to $400 a month
• Ontario Assistive Devices Program: check funding before buying equipment
• Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) Income Support
• Saskatchewan Assured Income for Disability (SAID)

Energy

• Ontario Electricity Support Program

Family

• Affordable Child Care Benefit
• Alberta Child and Family Benefit
• BC Family Benefit (BCFB): meaning, amounts and payment dates
• Canada Child Benefit (CCB)
• CPP children's benefit (orphan's benefit): amount and who qualifies
• EI maternity and parental benefits
• Manitoba Child Benefit (MCB)
• New Brunswick Child Tax Benefit
• Newfoundland and Labrador Child Benefit: how much per child?
• Nova Scotia Child Benefit
• Ontario Child Benefit: how much can you get per child?
• PEI Child Benefit: how much can you get?
• Québec Family Allowance
• Québec Parental Insurance Plan
• Yukon Child Benefit: how much can you get per child?

Health

• Canadian Dental Care Plan (CDCP)

Housing

• Home Accessibility Tax Credit (HATC)
• Home Buyers' Plan (HBP)
• Manitoba Rent Assist: who qualifies, amounts and how to apply
• Québec Shelter Allowance: who qualifies and how much
• Rental Assistance Program
• Shelter Aid For Elderly Renters

Living costs

• Calgary Fair Entry
• Manitoba Employment and Income Assistance (EIA)
• Saskatchewan Income Support (SIS)

Pension

• Canada Pension Plan retirement pension
• CPP death benefit
• CPP survivor's pension

Recreation

• Edmonton Leisure Access Program

Savings

• Canada Education Savings Grant (CESG)
• Canada Learning Bond (CLB)
• First Home Savings Account (FHSA)

Seniors

• Alberta Dental Assistance for Seniors
• Alberta Seniors Benefit
• Alberta Special Needs Assistance for Seniors
• Allowance and Allowance for the Survivor
• BC Senior's Supplement
• Guaranteed Annual Income System (GAINS)
• Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS)
• Old Age Security (OAS) pension
• Ontario Senior Homeowners' Property Tax Grant

Students

• Canada Student Grants and Loans

Tax credit

• Canada Carbon Rebate (closed)
• Canada Caregiver Credit (CCC)
• Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit (formerly GST/HST credit)
• Canada Workers Benefit (CWB)
• Medical Expense Tax Credit (METC)
• Newfoundland and Labrador Income Supplement and Seniors' Benefit
• Nova Scotia Affordable Living Tax Credit
• Ontario Trillium Benefit
• Québec Solidarity Tax Credit
• Saskatchewan Low-Income Tax Credit (SLITC): amounts and payment dates

Transit

• Ottawa EquiPass: reduced OC Transpo fare and how to apply
• Toronto Fair Pass Transit Discount

Veterans

• Veterans Affairs Canada disability benefits

Work

• Canada training credit: check your balance before claiming course fees
• EI caregiving benefits: eligibility and how to apply
• EI regular benefits
• EI sickness benefits
• EI special benefits for self-employed people (opting in)
• Ontario Works Financial Assistance
• Québec Work Premium