Our Objectives
Influence improvements to the Canada Disability Benefit and the Child Disability Benefit, focusing on raising benefit amounts, simplifying access, and expanding eligibility.
Advance policy reform on the Disability Tax Credit and the Registered Disability Savings Plan to remove access and program barriers.
Why It Matters
73% of people with an intellectual disability live in poverty. Many have to choose daily between food, rent, medicine, and disability supports.
The cost of basic needs like groceries, heat, and housing keeps going up. People with disabilities also have extra expenses like paying for accessible transportation, communication technology, or medical supplies. The income assistance that people with disabilities receive does not come close to covering these additional costs.
Our Vision
People with an intellectual disability and their families have the income and resources they need to secure a good quality of life and fully participate in all aspects of their communities.
How You Can Help
Inclusion Canada hosts free, 35-minute Inclusion Matters Tours to raise awareness of Inclusion Canada’s work toward building an inclusive Canada for people with an intellectual disability and their families.
Our Work
What We're Doing
Inclusion Canada is working with people with an intellectual disability, their families, and the federal government so that people with disabilities won’t have to keep living in poverty.
Through collective action with our allies, we made the Canada Disability Benefit Act a federal law in June 2023. The law creates a federal income supplement for people with disabilities. You can now apply for the benefit. Access the application portal link here.
We have also launched a new national initiative, Barrier-Free Benefits, with access to free in-person Navigators who can help you apply and access federal benefits, including the new CDB. You can access our web portal for the Barrier-Free Benefits program including links to book an appointment with our Navigator Team here.
We continue to advocate for improvements to the Canada Disability Benefit (CDB), Disability Tax Credit (DTC), and the Registered Disability Savings Plan. If you want to stay up to date on our work in these areas, please sign up for our monthly newsletter here.
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