The article highlights DABC’s new partnership with PLAN Institute and the BC Aboriginal Network on Disability (BCANDS). Through this partnership, we can help people who are eligible for the Registered Disability Savings PLAN (RDSP) to apply for the Disability Tax Credit (DTC) – which you need for the RDSP. Plan Institute can help clients to open an RDSP, and BCANDS can help Indigenous British Columbians with the DTC and RDSP.
Thank you to Clicklaw and the Courthouse Libraries for recognizing DABC’s work benefitting British Columbians with disabilities.
Disability Alliance BC has received the following notice about a survey from Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) about the Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP):
ESDC is evaluating its RDSP program for Canadians with disabilities. Part of this evaluation involves asking people who do not have a RDSP why they do not have such a plan, and how they save for the future in other ways.
Even though you may not have a RDSP, your opinion about saving money for the future is important to this research. Information gathered from this survey will be used to improve the savings plan program for all Canadians with disabilities.
A Canadian research company called R.A. Malatest & Associates Ltd. is managing the Survey of Savings for and by Persons with Disabilities on behalf of ESDC. If you would like to answer the survey, please contact Malatest at 1-855-412-1942. If you have a hearing disability, you can contact Malatest using a teletype (TTY) relay service by dialing 711 first. If you have other questions about the research, you can contact Malatest via email at: savings@malatest.com
For more information, please see the poster below.
Earlier this year, DABC Board member Sarina Mawji gave a 20-minute talk to kick off Lupus Society (BC)'S 1st in-person Annual Symposium. Sarina has decades
