What's the Canada Disability Benefit?

We asked Liss Cairns, Program Manager at Plan Institute, some questions about the Disability Tax Credit and the new Canada Disability Benefit. What are they? How do you get them? Is there help available? If you're getting provincial or territorial disability benefits, will the Canada Disability Benefit be clawed back at all?

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Here are some links for more information:

Canada Disability Benefit: https://www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/disability/canada-disability-benefit.html

Disability Tax Credit https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/individuals/segments/tax-credits-deductions-persons-disabilities/disability-tax-credit.html

Plan Institute's Canada Disability Benefit site https://www.canadadisabilitybenefit.ca/

Disability Alliance BC https://disabilityalliancebc.org/

Disability Alliance Canada https://disabilityalliancecanada.ca/