About the Canada Pension Plan disability benefits

Canada Pension Plan (CPP) disability benefits are designed to provide partial income replacement to eligible Canada Pension Plan (CPP) contributors who are under the age of 65 and have a severe and prolonged disability, as defined in the CPP legislation. Eligibility criteria must be met to receive the benefits.

There are 2 CPP disability benefits:

• a disability pension (provided to individuals who meet the eligibility requirements and are not yet receiving a retirement pension)
• a post-retirement disability benefit (provided to individuals who are found to be disabled after the start of their retirement pension)

In addition, children of CPP disability beneficiaries are also eligible for a monthly benefit up to the age 18, or up to age of 25 if they are attending school part-time or full-time.

Service Canada delivers CPP disability benefits by providing multiple services, including:

• answering program enquiries through specialized call centres, via the Internet and at in-person points of service
• collecting and processing benefit applications and issuing payments
• monitoring decisions and payments for accuracy
• administering requests for reconsideration of a decision
• conducting client authentication and identification
• preventing, detecting and deterring fraud and abuse