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Canada Child Tax Benefit (CCTB)

This benefit is a tax-free monthly payment made to eligible families with children under 18. It may include the National Child Benefit Supplement (NCBS), a benefit for low-income families with children, and/or the Child Disability Benefit (CDB), a benefit for families caring for children with severe and prolonged disabilities.

Child Rearing Drop-Out Provision (CRDP)

This program allows periods of low or zero Canada Pension Plan (CPP) contribution to be excluded from the calculation of CPP benefits when these periods are spent caring for a child under the age of seven.

Canada Learning Bond

The Canada Learning Bond provides a grant to families whose children are born in 2004 or later and who receive the National Child Benefit Supplement.

To be eligible, you must also be receiving

• Canada Child Tax Benefit (CCTB)

Manitoba Housing – Social Housing

This program provides affordable and subsidized housing for families, seniors and single people who are living on low or moderate incomes.

Universal Child Care Benefit

The Universal Child Care Benefit (UCCB) provides financial assistance to all Canadian families with young children, regardless of where they live, whatever their family circumstances or preferences. Parents receive $100 a month for each child under six.

Children's Fitness Tax Credit

This website provides information on the Children's Fitness Tax Credit.

Employment Insurance Family Supplement

The Family Supplement is a feature of Employment Insurance (EI) that provides additional benefits to low-income families with children.

Cadet Program

The Cadet Program gives youth the opportunity to develop leadership skills, increase their physical fitness and make new friends while enjoying a variety of fun and challenging activities.

Employment Insurance Maternity and Parental Benefits

Employment Insurance (EI) provides Maternity and Parental Benefits to individuals who are pregnant, have recently given birth, are adopting a child, or are caring for a newborn.

Aboriginal Head Start On Reserve

The Aboriginal Head Start On Reserve Program funds activities that support early intervention strategies to address the learning and developmental needs of young children living in First Nations communities. The goal is to support early child development strategies that are designed and controlled by communities.

Manitoba Early Learning and Child Care

This subsidy provides financial assistance to help families obtain approved, licensed child care.

RentAid

RentAid is a monthly benefit to help low income seniors, families, persons with disabilities and some people receiving income assistance pay their rent.

To be eligible, you must not be receiving

• Employment and Income Assistance Program

Children's Hearing Aid Program

This program provides financial assistance to Manitoba residents under age 18 to help with the cost of a hearing aid.

To be eligible, you must not be receiving

• Employment and Income Assistance Program

How to apply for a certificate

This Web site explains how to apply for a birth, marriage or death certificate in Manitoba.

Junior Canadian Rangers Program

The Junior Canadian Rangers Program offers a variety of skill-developing activities that promote traditional cultures and lifestyles to youth living in remote and isolated communities.

Mediation

This program offers mediation to parents who are separating or divorcing and are disputing child custody or access.

Families First

This program offers home visiting support to families and children, from pregnancy to school entry. It is delivered across the province by community public health.

Nobody's Perfect

This program provides parenting education and support for parents of children from birth to age five.

For the Sake of the Children

This program provides information to help parents understand the legal and emotional consequences of separation or divorce to help their children adjust.

Healthy Baby - Manitoba Prenatal Benefit & Community Support Programs

Healthy Baby is a two-part program of financial assistance for nutrition during pregnancy and community programs that offer nutritional and health information to expectant and new families.

Canada Education Savings Grant (CESG)

The Canada Education Savings Grant is a grant from the Government of Canada to help you start saving early for your child's education after high school.

Manitoba Child Benefit

The Manitoba Child Benefit provides financial assistance which will help ensure parents will not lose all support for their children when moving off welfare.

Child Disability Benefit (CDB)

This program provides a non-taxable supplement to low- and moderate-income families to help them with the costs of raising children under 18 who have a severe and prolonged mental or physical impairment.

To be eligible, you must also be receiving

• Canada Child Tax Benefit (CCTB)

Children's Special Services

The Children's Special Services program provides services and support to families who may need assistance with some of the extraordinary demands of caring for a child with mental or physical disabilities.

Adoption Financial Assistance

This program provides financial assistance to eligible families who are adopting a special needs child in the permanent care of Child and Family Services.

Adoption - Birth Parent Counselling

This program gives birth parents the opportunity to discuss what they want for their child and to get information about all their options.

Aboriginal Head Start in Urban and Northern Communities

The Aboriginal Head Start in Urban and Northern Communities Program is a community-based children's program delivered by the Public Health Agency of Canada. It focuses on early childhood development for First Nations, Inuit and Métis children and their families living off-reserve.

Elementary/Secondary Education Program

This program provides access for First Nations students to elementary or secondary schools, or services.