So I received a response finally on my CCTB application.
I am the step parent and CRA recognizes the woman in the home as being "primarily responsible" for children. And they will only pay one person in the home CCTB and since I have other children - it was me who applied for the shared parenting situation for my husband's children.
So, they have deemed I do meet the shared parenting situation but only for the summer months. I'm not exactly sure how they came to that conclusion because we meet 47% for odd years and 48.5'ish % for even years because of rotating spring break, etc. situations.... I'm assuming that they look at it on a month by month basis and there is some stupid criteria of meeting the 40% rule the month before and after a month to even be qualified for a month of CCTB (and some months like May that have mother's day her numbers are high because of mother's day weekend and ours would be high in June on account of father's day, but then we don't meet the month before for May which I guess precludes June...).
So my question is: Do I even dispute this? Because the information on the web and does not say "in a month" it says you must have a fairly regular rotation blah blah blah.
Truth be told, we are eligible for CCBT shared parenting for whatever months they deem appropriate, but we qualify for $0 for the months we are eligible. I just have a problem with mom collecting more of our tax dollars than she is legally entitled to by virtue of not declaring previously the shared parenting situation. I suspect she is also declaring a single status when she is married/common law too.
Do I challenge this to get what I think should be a shared parenting status for all 12 months?
Thoughts?
I am the step parent and CRA recognizes the woman in the home as being "primarily responsible" for children. And they will only pay one person in the home CCTB and since I have other children - it was me who applied for the shared parenting situation for my husband's children.
So, they have deemed I do meet the shared parenting situation but only for the summer months. I'm not exactly sure how they came to that conclusion because we meet 47% for odd years and 48.5'ish % for even years because of rotating spring break, etc. situations.... I'm assuming that they look at it on a month by month basis and there is some stupid criteria of meeting the 40% rule the month before and after a month to even be qualified for a month of CCTB (and some months like May that have mother's day her numbers are high because of mother's day weekend and ours would be high in June on account of father's day, but then we don't meet the month before for May which I guess precludes June...).
So my question is: Do I even dispute this? Because the information on the web and does not say "in a month" it says you must have a fairly regular rotation blah blah blah.
Truth be told, we are eligible for CCBT shared parenting for whatever months they deem appropriate, but we qualify for $0 for the months we are eligible. I just have a problem with mom collecting more of our tax dollars than she is legally entitled to by virtue of not declaring previously the shared parenting situation. I suspect she is also declaring a single status when she is married/common law too.
Do I challenge this to get what I think should be a shared parenting status for all 12 months?
Thoughts?
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