Conditions and the Disability Tax Credit
No condition qualifies or fails to qualify. The CRA does not assess diagnoses. It assesses how an impairment affects specific activities of daily living, as certified by a medical practitioner. Two people with the same condition routinely get different determinations.
These pages do not tell you whether you qualify, because nobody can. They show which of the CRA's assessment categories a practitioner usually speaks to in each situation, and the detail they will need from you.
- ADHDUsually engages: Mental functions necessary for everyday life.
- AutismUsually engages: Mental functions necessary for everyday life, Speaking, Cumulative effect.
- DepressionUsually engages: Mental functions necessary for everyday life.
- Anxiety disordersUsually engages: Mental functions necessary for everyday life.
- PTSDUsually engages: Mental functions necessary for everyday life.
- Multiple sclerosisUsually engages: Walking, Dressing, Mental functions necessary for everyday life, Cumulative effect.
- FibromyalgiaUsually engages: Walking, Dressing, Feeding, Cumulative effect.
- Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitisUsually engages: Eliminating (bowel or bladder functions), Cumulative effect.
- DiabetesUsually engages: Life-sustaining therapy.
- Chronic painUsually engages: Walking, Dressing, Feeding, Cumulative effect.
- ArthritisUsually engages: Walking, Dressing, Feeding.
- Hearing lossUsually engages: Hearing.
- Vision lossUsually engages: Vision.
- Cerebral palsyUsually engages: Walking, Dressing, Feeding, Speaking, Cumulative effect.
- Dementia and Alzheimer's diseaseUsually engages: Mental functions necessary for everyday life, Cumulative effect.
Not listed here? The categories are the same for everyone, and the self-check walks through all of them.