Diabetes research and advocacy groups say the Canada Revenue Agency has been lying to them about changes to how it assesses applications for the disability tax credit. Kimberley Hanson of Diabetes Canada says that effectively means most adults with Type 1 diabetes will be denied the disability tax credit, even if they had been approved in previous years. Since May, people with Type 1 diabetes have complained that hundreds of them were suddenly being turned down for the tax credit. In response, Lebouthillier reiterated her argument that the criteria haven't changed and that, in fact, approvals for the disability tax credit have increased 20 per cent between 2014 and 2016. Diabetes Canada says in 2017 so far, denials of the disability tax credit for the life-sustaining therapy category under which Type 1 diabetics fall, has spiked 70 per cent.

Source: CBC News December 04, 2017 18:46 UTC