Child Disability Benefit
Effective for the payment period beginning July 2006, the Child Disability Benefit component of the Canada Child Tax Benefit will be increased from $2,044 to $2,300 per child. The percentage at which the benefit is phased out when family net income exceeds $36,378 will also be reduced to 2% for families with one disabled child and 4% for families with more than one disabled child. Previously, the phase-out rates were 12.2%, 23% and 33% for one, two and three or more disabled children respectively.
As the result of the reduction in the phase-out rate, the income level at which the phase out ends has been increased to $151,378 for a family with one or two disabled children. It has been increased to $208,878 for families with three or more disabled children.
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