Do you have a Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP)? –Ottawa Community News
The Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP) is a long-term savings plan to help Canadians with disabilities and their families save for the future of the person with the disability. Often these funds are referred to as “Matched Savings Plan”...
Disability Tax Credit (DTC) Consultation Opportunity with CRA
You have until December 15, 2014 to participate. __ The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is committed to consulting with Canadians on The Disability Tax Credit Promoters Restrictions Act, and to seek feedback on how to simplify the disability tax...
Minister Bergen addresses Special Olympics Canada to highlight benefits of Registered Disability Savings Plan
The Honourable Candice Bergen, Minister of State (Social Development), highlighted the benefits of the Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP) during a meeting of Special Olympics senior representatives from all regions of Canada, who gathered in Ottawa today. She encouraged...
Senate Releases List of Improvement Recommendations on the RDSP
The Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce held a series of community meetings from December 2013 through February 2014 to study the ability of individuals to establish an RDSP with particular emphasis on legal representation, and the ability...
RDSP Improvements from Budget 2012 Come Into Effect
Budget 2012 proposed a number of improvements to the RDSP, most of which have not come into effect until two days ago, on January 1, 2014. The changes are: Investment income earned in an RESP is now allowed to...
Piloting her way to a comfortable retirement – Globe and Mail
Four years from retirement and only recently earning a “pretty good” salary, Marianne is worried. She will get a pension of about $2,600 a month from the university where she teaches and she has some savings. But does she...