I have just been approved by CPP Disability. It doesn't really help me because I have already been receiving benefits from my private insurance, and the CPP money will just be deducted. In fact, I may end up with less because the CPP money is taxable, whereas my private insurance money isn't.There is something called the Disability Tax Credit. To qualify, I will have to get more forms filled out by my doctor, who will likely charge me $150. The tax credit is available to people who have significant trouble performing tasks of everyday life, and they list them: walking, feeding, dressing, mental functions, and life support. Sitting isn't a category. I guess sitting is so basic that the govt never even thought someone can't do it and didn't think to include this as an activity of daily living! I would need to be impaired in at least two of the categories. Walking is one - can't stand/walk more than 30 minutes on a good day, often less. Dressing is an issue, too, but not in the way they expect - it's not due to arthritic fingers and lack of mobility that I can't put clothes on. It's very different. Same with feeding restrictions - I can't sit at the table like other people - so no restaurants or dinner parties, even family gatherings are hardly worth attending as so many events revolve around sitting around the dinner table. But this is very different from the usual reason people have trouble eating, such as unable to hold a spoon. I rarely leave the house. (How many social functions involve laying down - and no sex?!) Yet I don't fit the govt idea of disability tax credit.
Any help will be apprecited.
I didn't find the right solution from the Internet.
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14.06.2018 15:39
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