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Northwest Territories benefits

From the All the Numbers wiki · Retirement and benefits

CRA pays them on family net income from the base year (as for the Canada Child Benefit).

NWT Child Benefit

A yearly amount for children under 6 ($815 for one, $1,467 for two) and another for children 6 to 17 ($652 for one, $1,174 for two), paid in full up to $30,000 of family income and reduced in a straight line to nothing at $80,000. A parent with shared custody gets half the difference the shared children make. It comes with the CCB each month.[1]

What it does not do

The Senior Citizen Supplementary Benefit and the Senior Home Heating Subsidy are run by the territory and are not modelled. See income tax in the Northwest Territories.

See also

  • Canada Child Benefit · A monthly tax-free payment for each child under 18, paid to the person who cares for them and reduced as family income rises above about $38,000. The engine can calculate it; the planner does not ask about children, so plans do not include it.
  • Income tax in the Northwest Territories · The Northwest Territories tax income in four brackets from 5.9% to 14.05%, refund a cost of living credit and charge employees a payroll tax.

References

  1. ↑Income Tax Regulations (NT) s.1.1(1): "(a) B, the prescribed minimum threshold, is $30,000; (b) C … (i) $815 for one qualified dependant, (ii) $1,467 for two …, (iii) $1,997 for three …, (iv) $2,445 for four …, (v) $2,445 plus an additional $367 for each of the fifth and subsequent qualified dependants" [under six]; "(c) D … (i) $652 for one …, (ii) $1,174 for two …, (iii) $1,597 for three …, (iv) $1,956 for four …, (v) $1,956 plus an additional $293"; "(d) E, the prescribed maximum threshold, is $80,000"; ITA (NT) s.3.2(2): "(1/12)[C + D − (A − B)(C + D)/(E − B)]"; s.3.2(2.1): a shared-custody parent gets "(A + B)/2" · NWT Child Benefit: yearly amounts by the number of children under 6 and of children 6 to 17, in full to a minimum family income, reduced in a straight line to nil at a maximum; paid monthly with the CCB · See the source · effective 2025-07-01