Citizen Rebates - Seniors Care Grant

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Seniors Care Grant

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Description

The Seniors Care Grant is an annual grant program that helps seniors with a low income with the cost of household services, healthcare services and home heating. Grants are up to $750 for each household.

Seasonal program * Applications open on September 1, 2024 and close on March 31, 2025

Eligible household and healthcare services and home heating costs include services that help seniors stay in their homes including:

  • Cooking and meal preparation (excluding the cost of food)
  • Grocery and meal delivery (excluding the cost of food)
  • Healthcare services for health and wellness (like foot care, physiotherapy and mental health support)
  • Home heating (like furnace oil, natural gas, propane, firewood, wood pellets and electricity)
  • Home heating repairs and regular heating maintenance
  • Home cleaning, organizing and help with downsizing or moving
  • Laundry
  • Medication and prescription delivery (excluding the cost of medications and prescriptions)
  • Outdoor work (like driveway maintenance, landscaping, lawn care, snow removal, stacking wood and tree removal)
  • Phone, cell phone and internet services (excluding the cost of devices)
  • Small home repairs (like windows, doors, roof, plumbing, electrical, decks, fencing, siding and painting)
  • Transportation (like taxis, ride shares, shuttles and other methods of transportation) and public and community transit (like the bus, Access-A-Bus and ferry)

Ineligible household and healthcare services include the cost of:

  • Devices (like phones, cellphones, computers, laptops and tablets)
  • Food
  • Medical and assistive devices (like eyeglasses, dentures, dental implants, braces, orthopedic supports and personal alerts)
  • Medications, prescriptions, supplements and vitamins
Eligibility
To qualify for the Seniors Care Grant, you need to be 65 or older by March 31, 2025 and meet all of the following criteria:
* Have a household net income of $45,100 or less
* Live in your own home or apartment
* Have your name on the property title, Land Titles Initiative Certificate of Claim or residential lease agreement or a Band administrative letter issued by a First Nation community (reserve)
* Have paid (or that you will pay) for household and healthcare services and home heating between April 1, 2024 and March 31, 2025

Applicants need to apply by March 31, 2025 (only 1 person per household can apply)
Application Process
Contact for help with the application process and for answers to questions about proof of income, home ownership or lease agreement, and receipts for household and healthcare services and home heating.

The application is available on the website * You will receive your rebate faster if you apply online

Printed applications are available by calling 902-424-5200 or 1-800-670-4357 to request an application be mailed to you

Completed printed application forms can be faxed to 902-428-2449 or returned to the mailing address below:

Seniors Care Grant
PO Box 160, Stn Central
Halifax, NS
B3J 2M4
Toll Free
1-800-670-4357 - Within Nova Scotia
General Inquiries
902-424-5200
Fax
902-428-2449
Web Site
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Email
seniorsgrant@novascotia.ca
Mailing Address
Seniors Care Grant
PO Box 160, Stn Central
Halifax, NS, B3J 2M4
Canada
Languages
English
* Application form also available in French
Fees
No fees
Documents Required
Keep a copy of your receipts for household and healthcare services and home heating until May 1, 2026. You only need to provide receipts if the Seniors Care Grant contacts you and asks you to provide receipts. See website for more information about acceptable receipts.
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