The federal government is about to send out an additional payment of $150 to Canadians who qualify for Canada Disability Benefit (CDB) payments.
The one-time payment, announced Thursday in a release from Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), is in addition to the CDB program’s regular monthly payments, to help those individuals offset the costs associated with obtaining the disability tax credit (DTC), including necessary certificates.
The Canada Disability Benefit is a federal program created to provide financial support to low-income, working-age persons with disabilities through regular monthly benefit payments, including on Sept. 17, when those that qualify for the CDB will receive up to $204.20.
In order to qualify for the CDB, one must first be approved for the disability tax credit.
The disability tax credit is available for Canadians with physical or mental impairments to reduce the amount of income tax they owe, according to the Canada Revenue Agency, which adds the credit aims to offset some of the related costs individuals or their supporting family members may face.
To be approved for this tax credit, individuals must obtain a T2201 certificate, which some practitioners may charge a fee to fill out for patients.
Get daily National news
“Since its launch last year, the Canada Disability Benefit has helped support the financial security of hundreds of thousands of working-age Canadians with disabilities.
“This new supplemental payment will help cover the cost of getting the disability tax credit, so more people can access the support they are entitled to,” said Canada’s jobs and families minister, Patty Hajdu, in the release.
-
![]()
Disability advocates say Alberta government is ‘clawing back’ benefits -
![]()
The West Block: May 12, 2024 | Lessons for Canada from U.K.’s plan to boost defence spending to 2.5% of GDP -
![]()
Important that we bring the temperature down: Minister responds to Calgary campus protest clashes -
![]()
Global News Hour at 6 BC: April 22 -
![]()
B.C. professor quits federal panel in protest of new disability benefit
The payments will be sent automatically to those who qualify if they received CDB payments all at once for a full payment period, as well as people who have received the benefit in the past and could receive $150 for each approved DTC certificate.
The government says an example is someone who only received one CDB payment and is no longer eligible for the CDB.
The one-time payments will be sent on Sept. 17 with the regular CDB payment for eligible recipients who received a CDB payment from July 2025 to June 2026.
Those that received CDB payments since July 2026 will see the additional one-time payment in winter 2027, but a specific date has not yet been provided, and will include individuals who were approved for new DTC certificates.
To date, the ESDC says 335,650 people have received Canada Disability Benefit payments totalling $813,074,098.
I am not sure how this is newsworthy. $150 to support families and people with lifelong disabilities is pathetic.
Discrimination against non working disabled persons
Tell me how someone i know has a bad back and can’t work and collects disability money but yeah can ride around on his atv all the time
Count on Danielle Smith and her band of heartless c*nts , in Alberta, to steal this benefit, as well. Like she did with the last 200 dollar increase.
WCB CUT OFF MY PAYMENTS AS SOON AS I RETIRED. NOW I STILL SUFFER, WITH NO MONEY. Graham Bruce, who served as the BC Liberal Minister of Skills Development and Labour. In 2002, under the provincial government of Premier Gordon Campbell, Minister Graham Bruce introduced Bill 49 (the Workers Compensation Amendment Act). This highly controversial legislation fundamentally restructured the workers’ compensation system in British Columbia. KEEP VOTING LIBERAL TO DRAIN YOUR POCKETS DRY
You do need a Disability Tax Credit to receive the Disability Benefit but not all people who are disabled and receive the tax credit are able to receive the Disability Benefit. It’s also a LOT of onerous paperwork for the person who is disabled. You have to function at a pretty high level to even understand how to get the credit or Benefit.
Glad that this is going out to deserving people.
Funny how the people that need this the most are the least able to jump through all the hoops to get it. More back patting for these deadweight politicians.
Since I’m Albertan, I will never see a dime of it
Good thing I left Canada entirely
I’m a digital nomad now, doing my own thing
The UCP will absorb this tax credit, just like every other CDB credit. I think that the UCP describe CDB as “non-exempt income for AISH recipients”. “AISH recipients will continue to receive the same overall monthly support that they do today”. Poverty, food insecurity and fuel prices do not help disabled citizens. It is just more depressing and anxious each day to get by. Thanks, Danielle.
The majority of people on disability are at or below the poverty line. You keep voting for corrupt right wingers like sellout smith and slug ford, they keep both of us on permanent disability at a starvation level. Right wingers truly hsve destroyed everything.
Slug ford bribed Ontario voters with $200 in 2025, and yet not a word of criticism about that. Criminals.
And how much overhead did this cost? $75 a payment?
Another vote-buying scheme that Albertans don’t qualify for.
“Poverty solved”