Canada Disability Benefit Regulations

Marginal note:Form of application

• 4 (1) An application for benefits must be made in the form and manner specified by the Minister.

• Marginal note:Application made

  (2) An application is deemed to have been made only when it is received by the Minister.

• Marginal note:Application before 18th birthday

  (3) An application that is received by the Minister within six months before the day on which the applicant turns 18 years of age is deemed to have been received on that day.

• Marginal note:New application

  (4) If, for any given month, a beneficiary becomes ineligible to receive an allocation, the allocation ceases as of that month and they must make a new application for benefits to receive the allocation again.