The Minister of Social Development and Poverty Reduction is looking to fill two vacancies on the Provincial Accessibility Committee (PAC). The role of the PAC is to give advice on accessibility to government.

Recruitment is now open and you can find comprehensive details about the role in the Notice of Position. The application deadline is Monday, April 21, 2025. The Minister is also looking to build an eligibility list for future vacancies on the committee.

The Spring 2025 edition of Transition magazine is here!

The theme of this edition is Social Media: Opening the world through visibility, connection and advocacy.

Download it from our website in PDF format here and in text only format here.

Our Transition team is always glad to receive feedback and to consider articles or creative work from our community partners and from people living with a disability.

If you’d like to send along your ideas, we’d love to hear from you: transition@dabc.ca.

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.