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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 01:23:52 EST
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- From: Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
- Subject: Disability
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- One of those funny/sad pieces of bureaucratic brilliance just caught
- my eye as I was looking through the 1991 income tax guide. In a section
- on disability claims:
-
- To find out if you may be able to claim the disability amount, answer
- the following questions:
-
- Are you legally blind?
-
- Are you unable to:
-
- - feed and dress yourself?
- - eliminate?
- - walk?
- - speak?
- - hear?
- - perceive, think and remember?
-
- If you answer "yes" to any of these questions, you may be markedly restricted
- in your activities of daily living. You may also be markedly restricted if
- it takes you an extremely long time to perform these activities.
-
- To qualify for the disability amount, you have to be markedly restricted
- *all or almost all of the time*. If you are markedly restricted occasionally
- or part of the time, you are not entitled to this tax credit.
-
- Sigh ...
-
- Tony H.
-