Not sure what the above reply from admin is intending to answer.
Being able to claim caregiver without claiming disability under T2201 is possible.
After hours online with tech support (who argued that you can’t do this and that I need to apply for T2201) and then being forced to buy the expert tax help who then spent several hours with several calls with supervisors working on it, we finally discovered the answer.
When you fill out the initial info, your spouse is asked the questions below. Normally these questions only trigger an application later in the deduction fields but this question actually applies for the caregiver amount without doing anything after the fact. So despite your wife not being listed as a dependant (she should be) and despite you not showing as having received the Canadian Caregiver Credit, you actually have. As you can tell by this thread and the erroneous Admin answers, virtually no-one on the Turbo Tax team knows how this works, or will provide you with correct info regarding this issue. Hope this helps all those stuck on this one.
did you have a mental or physical impairment? |
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| | | Canada Caregiver Amount: I am dependent on Shaun because of an impairment |
I had/have a disability
| | | I have expenses related to my disability that enabled me to be employed, carry on a business, do research for which I received a grant, or study at a designated educational institution |
