Minister Flaherty announces the RDSP on March 19, 2007
Canada becomes the first country to create a Disability Savings Plan with Minister Flaherty’s budget announcement on March 19th. Read pages 83-86 of the federal budget on the DSP. For the first time in history, a generation of people...
Expert Panel Report – December 12, 2006
The Disability Savings Plan took a huge step towards reality in December, 2006. An Expert Panel established by Minister Flaherty recommended the creation of a Disability Savings Plan; a Disability Savings Grant and a Canada Disability Bond. The recommendations,...
A Good Life
PLAN’s work on the Registered Disability Savings Plan began when we identified a gap in public policy. Our institutions had yet to respond to the emerging social phenomenon of people with disabilities outliving their parents. This gap, along with...