why not to watch 24/7 coverage of shootings

[Thorin]

I was looking up some information on the disability tax credit and whether autism can be backdated to birth.  That led to a blog post about truth and lies and why we should not tell lies.  That blog post had the following video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PezlFNTGWv4.  The video is eye-opening in it's final 30 seconds, when you realize that a news channel has a forensic psychiatrist on the air telling the news channel to stop broadcasting information about the latest shooting.

Also, as far as I can read in the tax code autism is a condition that starts at birth and thus you can get reimbursed for the disability tax credit from birth, even if the diagnosis didn't happen until the child is seven.  I wish the doctor who has to fill in that information would understand that.

[Lazybones]

Also, as far as I can read in the tax code autism is a condition that starts at birth and thus you can get reimbursed for the disability tax credit from birth, even if the diagnosis didn't happen until the child is seven.  I wish the doctor who has to fill in that information would understand that.

Yes, you can get it back dated to birth.

My oldest was diagnosed  as on the spectrum but mild. She was already getting early childhood support for a few things but the diagnosis opened up treatment for behaviour related issues.

Received 5 years worth of corrections all at once. Took a bit of time going though all the paperwork (verification of the disability), but my accountant handled the retroactive tax part.

Well worth the time.

[Thorin]

Our generalist didn't really understand that date of diagnosis and start of disability are not the same thing. Our specialist did, but backdated it to the year after he was born (weird, maybe she just read the chart wrong). Thanks to having a healthy income against which to apply the tax credit, I could get $4k per year retro-active for six years (so $24k). That means we need that much less oncime going forward to provide the same support we do now for him, which means we can spend less time working and more time with him.

Also, weird that you didn't reply until today, two weeks after the thread started, Lazy. Were you searching the forums for autism, or something?

[Lazybones]

I just got my return. Your post was open ended in the fact you talked about not already having it back dated. I saw the original post a while ago but was waiting for the total and status of my return.

Since I already had substantial deductions in most years it was more around 2 k per year for us. Unfortunately in my province some funding is removed at the age of 6 and assumed by the schools which is awful since that only gave us a few months to go though and try and use some of it. The credit helps but I would rather have had those years to focus on treatment.  Schools been rough.