Shamoy

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7/18/2014
Topic: Eligible for retroactive Child Tax Benefits?

Shamoy

Hi, I am a Canadian citizen by birth in 1998 (I was born in Canada). My parents were refugee claimants at that time. From the Humanitarian and Compassionate Grounds, my parents were granted permanent residence in the year of 2006. During this period, my parents were given work permits and they were working and paying taxes. We were a low income family and we still are. Since being born in 1998, my family did not recieve any child tax benefits from 1998 to 2005 (we've been living here ever since). On top of that, my brother was born as a Canadian citizen in Canada in 2000. He also missed his child tax benefits from 2000 to 2006. Everyone in our family is now Canadian citizens. So now I would like to know whether if Canadian law granted rights to families in our situation from 1998 to 2006 to receive child tax benefits? If so, is there any possibility of requesting to recover missing retro child tax benefits?