Disability Tax Credit

It is a tax credit that helps people with disabilities, or their supporting family member, reduce the amount of income tax they may have to pay. Because the Disability Tax Credit can be applied retroactively to personal income tax filings for up to ten years, applicants may also entitled to a lump sum payment.

In order to be eligible for the Disability Tax Credit, one must suffer a marked impairment or complete inability to perform one or more functions necessary for everyday life that persists regardless of appropriate treatment or medication.

You can read more about the criteria here: https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/individuals/segments/tax-credits-deductions-persons-disabilities/disability-tax-credit/eligible-dtc/mental-functions.html 

To be able to establish this level of disability, our clinical psychologist will need to discuss and examine your symptomatology following medication treatment and/or ADHD coaching to establish that despite treatment, you are unable to carry out mental functions necessary for everyday life or experience significant difficulty in doing so (for example it takes you three times longer). 

To start the assessment and documentation process to establish the presence of disability and support your DTC application, you will first complete the application form below. The next step is three consultation sessions with our clinical psychologist. 

After completing the application form below, you will need to attend a clinical disability interview with our doctor online via videoconference. Two further consulting sessions (which you will not attend) are required to complete the application. A fourth session may be required if the Canada Revenue Agency has follow-up questions after they have reviewed your file. 

Each of these three psychological consultation sessions is billed at our clinic's consultation rate of $250 per session. (The total initial cost, which includes the clinical disability interview and two additional consulting sessions to process and submit your file, is $750.) If the Canada Revenue Agency has follow-up questions, further consultation sessions will be required, billed at the clinic's consultation rate.

If the doctor determines that you are ineligible after the clinical disability interview, you will only be billed for single interview consultation session ($250).

Each session is billed as one hour of psychological services. We can provide you with a written quote (estimate) for your insurance company if you wish to confirm your coverage.

No, approval is not guaranteed. The final determination on eligibility for the Disability Tax Credit is made by the Canada Revenue Agency.