Update on the Canada Disability Benefit

March 3, 2025 by DABC

Big news! 🎉

Today, Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities, Kamal Khera, announced that regulations for the Canada Disability Benefit (CDB) are complete, and will come into force on May 15th, 2025. The first CDB cheques will be dispersed in July 2025.

Read Minister Khera’s statement here.

The Government has also confirmed that the Disability Tax Credit will be the main prerequisite for the CDB. To learn more, click here to read our blog post from October 2024 “What the Disability Tax Credit means for the Canada Disability Benefit.”

Need help to apply for the Disability Tax Credit? We can help! To learn more, click here.

Plan Institute recently created a website dedicated to the CDB, and it’s a fantastic resource. Check out their page on preparing for the CDB here.

While we still wish that the CDB would put more money into the hands of more people with disabilities in Canada, it is indeed great news that eligible people will be able to benefit from it very soon.

 

Webinar - CPP-D Appeals: The Social Security Tribunal

February 20, 2025 by DABC

Graphic with the DABC and ICBC logos, a graphic of a person on a computer screen with a speech bubble over their head, and text that says "Join our upcoming webinar: Canada Pension-Plan Disability (CPP-D): The Social Security Tribunal. Made possible thanks to generous funding from ICBC. Location: Zoom. Date: March 28, 2025. Time: 10 am PST. www.dabc.ca"

Join our upcoming Canada Pension Plan-Disability (CPP-D) Appeal: Social Security Tribunal webinar.

When: March 28th, 2025 at 10 am PST.
Where: Zoom

Register here👇:

Surrey Schools launches accessibility video series

February 11, 2025 by DABC

The Surrey School district “is launching an exciting new four-part animated video series on accessibility to help students, parents and staff better understand language around accessibility, namely the terms disability, barriers, accessibility and inclusion.

Created by the Surrey Schools accessibility working group and advisory committee, the four closed captioned videos are intended to create a common understanding of these terms in school communities across Surrey and White Rock. The first video explores the term disability and how it conjures up specific ideas of what disabilities look like, when in actuality, disabilities can be quite complex, diverse and even unnoticeable.

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The videos are part of the Surrey Schools accessibility plan – a three-year roadmap that aims to improve the experiences for those with disabilities in the district and provide equitable access to opportunities – and serve as the first action item to fulfill one of the plan’s four main priorities: to establish a common understanding of accessibility terms.”

Learn more here: https://www.surreyschools.ca/_ci/p/183360

DABC worked in partnership with B.C. Council of Administrators of Inclusive Support In Education and Untapped Accessibility to support school districts in BC as they implemented the requirements of the Accessible BC Act (learn more about the Accessible Organizations Project: bcaccessibilityhub.ca), and we are very pleased to see this work continuing!