i have dual citizenship and worked in canada i am starting disability in US can i get disability from canada?

Question

i worked in canada for 20 years before moving to the USA with dual citizenship is it possible to get disability from both countries?

Answer 1

that really depends on the canadian policies....but u should have disability form US for sure. u probably only have the US. passport....that means that canadian government has excepted your american passport as their own and has given u limited citizenship. there are many restrictions on your type of citizenship from canadian government and so i would guess that u will not get the disability from canada.

Answer 2

The answer is based on residency, not citizenship.

If you have claimed a US location as your primary address for 180 days in the last three years (calcuulated as ALL of last 365-day window, plus 50 percent of previous 365-day window, plus 25 percent of the 365-day window before that), you are a US resident. This means you pay taxes at the US rate, to the US government, on your WORLDWIDE income.

It also means you can claim the US disability benefits - which are ONLY available to someone residing in the US.

If, on the other hand, your country of residence (calculated by the same method above) is Canada, AND you've been paying taxes to the Canadian government at the Canadian rate on your WORLDWIDE income, you can claim the Canadian disability benefit. However, it will ONLY be available to someone residing in Canada.

To answer your question in the shortest form - no, you cannot claim benefits from both countries. (This applies to ALL benefits, including Canada Pension - not just disability benefits). You can only claim them from your country-of-residence.

Answer 3

While you are a citizen of both countries, you are a resident of only one, and that is likely to be the determining factor.

Answer 4

probably not because you must live there just like you must live in the us to collect ssa or ssi.

go here and start asking btw dis in cnd is paid by province.
you couild qualify for the cand pension plan though.

but that will affect your ssi payments.

http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/en/gateways/nav/top_nav/program/odi.shtml

http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/en/isp/common/rtrinfo.shtml


go to www.canada.gc.ca and see the intl tax treates cnd has with the usa. that could also affect you. too.