Applications open for Seniors Care Grant (Canada)

Funding Information

• You can receive $750 if you qualify for the Seniors Care Grant.

Eligible Costs

• Eligible household and healthcare services and home heating costs include services that help you stay in your home including:
  • Cooking and meal preparation (excluding the cost of food)
  • Grocery and meal delivery (excluding the cost of food)
  • Healthcare services for your health and wellness (like foot care, physiotherapy and mental health support)
  • Home heating (like furnace oil, natural gas, propane, firewood, wood pellets and electricity)
  • Home heating repairs and regular heating maintenance
  • Home cleaning, organizing and help with downsizing or moving
  • Laundry
  • Medication and prescription delivery (excluding the cost of medications and prescriptions)
  • Outdoor work (like driveway maintenance, landscaping, lawn care, snow removal, stacking wood and tree removal)
  • Phone, cellphone and internet services (excluding the cost of devices)
  • Small home repairs (like windows, doors, roof, plumbing, electrical, decks, fencing, siding and painting)
  • Transportation (like taxis, ride shares, shuttles and other methods of transportation) and public and community transit (like the bus, Access-A-Bus and ferry)

Ineligible Costs

• Ineligible household and healthcare services include the cost of:
  • Devices (like phones, cellphones, computers, laptops and tablets)
  • Food
  • Medical and assistive devices (like eyeglasses, dentures, dental implants, braces, orthopedic supports and personal alerts)
  • Medications, prescriptions, supplements and vitamins

Eligibility Criteria

• To qualify for the grant, you need to be 65 or older and meet all of the following criteria:
  • Have a household net income of $45,100 or less
  • Live in your own home or apartment
  • Have your name on the property title, Land Titles Initiative Certificate of Claim or residential lease agreement or a Band administrative letter issued by a First Nation community (reserve)
  • Have paid (or that you will pay) for household and healthcare services and home heating

Application Requirements

• Acceptable receipts include receipts:
  • On a piece of paper or in a notebook (written or signed by the service provider)
  • In a receipt book (written or signed by the person or business providing the service)
  • From a business
• Receipts need to include:
  • Name of the person receiving the service
  • Type of service received
  • Cost of the service
  • Date of the service
  • Name and address of the person or business providing the service

For more information, visit Nova Scotia.