PLAN Bulletin on the RDSP – FREE
Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN) has made our third and most recent informational Bulletin, Canada’s New RDSP, available to you as a PDF download FREE (download here). Understanding how to best use the RDSP for our families is complicated....
The Financial Crisis and How It Affects the RDSP
Reminder: if you are new to this blog and want a detailed description of the RDSP please click on the header under “RDSP FactSheet” or refer to the September post entitled “Review of the Registered Disability Savings Plan”. One of...
The Ten Year Rule – RDSP
Reminder: if you are new to this blog and want a detailed description of the RDSP please click on the header under “RDSP FactSheet” or refer to the September post entitled “Review of the Registered Disability Savings Plan”. One...
CACL Election 2008 Platform Analysis
The Canadian Association for Community Living has recently come out with a “disability-specific” analysis of the various election platforms of the parties running in the federal election. This includes mention of the potential for a RRSP rollover into the...
The Potential of the RDSP
Laura Mackenrot, a disability advocate from BC recently wrote an article for the BC Coalition of People with Disabilities (BCCPD) on the RDSP that was very interesting and really pinpoints the important characteristics of the plan. She herself is...
Free RDSP Telelearning Seminars
If anyone is looking for additional information about the RDSP there is another resource which I thought I would mention. Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN) conducts free RDSP telelearning seminars on a tri-monthly basis. The telelearning seminars will give...
The New RDSP: From Poverty to Equity
Al Etmanski, Co-Founder and President of PLAN recently blogged on the potential and power of the RDSP to leverage people out of poverty. Here is a sample from his post: “Fighting poverty by encouraging savings is now being championed...
Election Platforms: What different parties are saying about disability
What are the different parties saying around the issue of disability during the current federal election campaign? Here’s a brief overview: Liberal Party “Among the most sacred of Canadian values is this core belief: the true measure of a...
PLAN’s Chair Responds to Election Promises
As a family member, I welcome Prime Minister Harper’s two election announcements today: 1) To allow the proceeds of RRSPs or RRIFs to be rolled over to the RDSP of a son, daughter or grandchild with a disability, 2) To...
RDSP – Issuer Agreements and FAQs
For anyone who is interested, the Canadian Revenue Agency came out with a webpage which provides a template of what issuers (financial institutions) might use for drafting agreements with anyone wanting to sign up for an RDSP. This “sample...