See how the DTC criteria apply to your situation

The CRA does not decide on your diagnosis. It decides on how your impairment affects what you do, on an ordinary day, over time. This walks through the same categories the CRA uses and gives you back an organized summary of what you described.

Before you start: what happens to what you type

Nothing is sent anywhere while you answer these questions. The self-check runs inside your browser. There is no account, and nothing you type here is transmitted unless you choose to send it at the end. Like every page here, this one counts page views with a tool that sets no cookies and cannot identify you. It knows the page was opened. It does not know, and cannot know, a single word you enter.

At the end, your summary appears on this page. You can copy it, print it, and take it to your practitioner, and we never see any of it. If you close the tab, it is gone, and we never had it.

Sending the summary to us is a separate and optional step at the end. Nothing is transmitted unless you choose it, and exactly what happens to it is set out in full at that step, before you send.

Would you like this page to remember your answers?

This takes a while, and you may want to stop and come back. If you turn this on, your answers are kept on this device, in this browser. They are still never sent to us or to anyone else.

Remember my answers on this device so I can stop and come back

If you are on a shared or public computer, leave this off. Your answers are cleared automatically once your summary is made, and you can clear them yourself at any time.

This is not an eligibility decision, and cannot be. Only the CRA decides eligibility, based on what a medical practitioner certifies. This tool does not score your answers or tell you whether you qualify. It organizes what you describe into the categories your practitioner would be speaking to.

1. Duration

The CRA looks for an impairment that has lasted, or is expected to last, a continuous period of at least 12 months.

How long has this been affecting you?

2. How much of the time

The CRA's wording is "substantially all of the time". Good days and bad days both matter here, so describe the pattern rather than your best day.

How often are you affected?

What does a bad day look like?This is often the most useful thing a practitioner can read, and the thing people most often leave out.

3. Which activities are affected

Tick every one that applies. You will then be asked about each one you ticked. If two or more are significantly affected but none on its own feels severe, that still matters: the CRA assesses the cumulative effect separately.

4. Your practitioner

Part B of the application can only be completed by a medical practitioner, and which impairments a practitioner may certify depends on their profession. A medical doctor or nurse practitioner may certify all of them.

Do you have a practitioner who knows your situation?

5. Anything else

Anything you think matters that the questions above did not ask about.

Your summary

This is what you described, organized into the categories your practitioner would be speaking to. It is not an assessment, a score, or an opinion about whether you qualify.

What to do with it

Take it to your practitioner as the starting point for a conversation about Part B. It is usually easier for them to react to something written down than to fill a blank form during an appointment.
Use it yourself. The CRA's DTC information and phone line are free, and so is Access DTC from Disability Alliance BC if you are in British Columbia.
Or have us prepare the full package for a flat CAD 299, which turns this into a practitioner briefing document organized against the CRA's assessment categories.

Send this to DTC Prep

This step is optional. You have not sent us anything yet, and you do not have to. If you would rather take the summary above to your practitioner and never speak to us, that is a perfectly good outcome.

What happens if you send it

What we store: the summary above exactly as you wrote it, your name, and your email address. Nothing else.
Where: a private database used only for this service and kept separate from everything else we run.
Who can see it: only the person who runs DTC Prep. It is not shared with anyone, no staff or contractors have access, and it is never sold, or used for marketing or advertising.
How long: until your application has been submitted, plus twelve months. Then the record is deleted.
Deleting it sooner: email [email protected] at any time, quoting the reference we give you, and it is deleted within 30 days. You do not have to give a reason.
In full: our privacy page sets out everything we hold, who processes it, where it is stored, and how to see a copy.

This self-check builds your summary inside your browser, so it needs JavaScript switched on. If you would rather not switch it on, the questions above are still worth answering on paper: the headings are the CRA's own assessment categories, and a practitioner can work from your written answers just as well.