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.
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.
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.
Now we’re helping with the regulations - like who will be eligible for the benefit, and how much money they will get. We’re also advocating for improvements to financial programs like the Disability Tax Credit (DTC) and the Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP).
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