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Canada Child Benefit: Spouse's Return Filed — Request to Recalculate
[YOUR FULL NAME]
[YOUR ADDRESS]
Social insurance number: [YOUR SIN]
Phone: [PHONE]
[DATE]
Canada Revenue Agency
[ADDRESS FROM THE CRA LETTER]
Re: Canada child benefit stopped — your letter dated [DATE OF CRA LETTER], reference [REFERENCE NUMBER]
My Canada child benefit payments stopped from [MONTH AND YEAR]. Your letter says the return of my [spouse / common-law partner] for [YEAR] was missing.
Spouse or partner
Name: [SPOUSE OR PARTNER FULL NAME]
Social insurance number: [SPOUSE SIN, IF ANY]
We have lived together since [DATE].
The missing return is now filed
Choose one and delete the other:
( ) My [spouse / partner] filed the [YEAR] return on [FILING DATE]. Confirmation number: [CONFIRMATION NUMBER].
( ) My [spouse / partner] was not resident in Canada in [YEAR]. The statement of their income for [YEAR] is enclosed: total income $[AMOUNT] (in Canadian dollars).
Change in status (only if it applies)
( ) We separated on [DATE OF SEPARATION] and have lived apart since then because our relationship broke down.
Children
Child Date of birth
[CHILD NAME] [DATE OF BIRTH]
[CHILD NAME] [DATE OF BIRTH]
What I ask
Please recalculate my Canada child benefit using both returns for [YEAR].
Please restart the monthly payments and pay the months that were stopped, from [FIRST MONTH] to [LAST MONTH].
If anything else is needed, please tell me in writing.
Enclosed:
Copy of your letter dated [DATE OF CRA LETTER]
[Filing confirmation / statement of income]
Yours truly,
[YOUR FULL NAME]
Signature: ____________________
For me
[ ] Missing year: [YEAR] (July–December uses last year; January–June the year before — ITA s. 122.6)
[ ] Partner's return filed on [DATE]
[ ] Letter sent on [DATE]; copy kept
[ ] Next year: both returns by April 30, or June 15 with a business (ITA s. 150(1)(d))
[ ] If we separate or move in together: tell the CRA by the end of the next month (ITA s. 122.62(6)–(7))