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Family Supports for Children with Disabilities provides support to Yukon families to care for their child with a disability, supports early intervention to increase a child’s lifelong learning potential, provides coordinated access to supports and interventions, and promotes inclusion of children with disabilities in community life. It can provide funding for things like respite, family […]
This program, provided through Manitoba Department of Families, supports families who are raising a child (or children) with developmental and physical disabilities, to meet some of the additional needs they may have.
The Primary Caregiver Tax Credit is a $1,400 ($1,275 prior to 2015) annual refundable personal income tax credit that can be claimed by any Manitoban who is giving ongoing voluntary care to a family member, a friend or a neighbour in Manitoba.
The Alberta Child Health Benefit covers children’s health expenses for families with low incomes. This health plan is for children up to 18 years of age. Children who are 18 or 19 years old also qualify if they are living at home and attending high school.
To access the provincial Alberta Child Benefit, you must register your child for the federal Canada Child Benefit. Once eligible, your Alberta Child Benefit will be automatically added to your Canada Child Benefit payments.
The Family Support for Children with Disabilities (FSCD) Program gives a wide range of family-centred supports and services. Services are meant to help strengthen a families’ ability to promote their child’s healthy development and encourage their child’s participation in activities at home and in the community.
The Alberta Aids to Daily Living (AADL) program assists Albertans with a long-term disability, chronic illness or terminal illness, in maintaining independence in their community.
The Alberta Child Care Subsidy Program helps eligible families with children from 0-12 years old and who are not yet in grade 7 to pay child care costs for children enrolled in an approved family day home, a licensed daycare program, licensed out-of-school care program or licensed group family child care program.
The Alberta Family Employment Tax Credit (AFETC) helps lower and middle-income working families provide for their children.
The family allowance payment is a form of universal provincial financial assistance paid to all eligible families with one or more dependent children under the age of 18 living with them. If your child was born in Quebec, no application is required as you are registered automatically.
The Quebec Supplement for Handicapped Children is a financial assistance measure paid to the parents of a child whose health condition requires complex medical care at home or who has severe and persistent disabilities preventing them from carrying out the life habits of a child of their age for at least 1 year.
The Quebec Supplement for Handicapped Children with Exceptional Care Needs is a financial assistance paid for a child who has prolonged physical impairments or a mental function that can be described as a severe and persistent disability(ies) which prevent them from carrying out, without assistance, daily activities similar to those expected for a child the […]