Canada Disability Savings Regulations — 5.4
5.4 (1) If a disability assistance payment is made to a beneficiary who is no longer a DTC-eligible individual, the issuer of the RDSP shall repay to the Minister, within the period set out in the issuer agreement, the least of the following amounts: (a) $3 for every $1 of disability assistance payment made, (b) the fair market value, immediately before the making of the disability assistance payment, of the property held by the RDSP, and (c) the amount determined by the formula A + B – C where A is (i) if the disability assistance payment is made before the calendar year in which the beneficiary attains 51 years of age, the total amount of grants and bonds paid into the RDSP within the 10-year period before the day on which the beneficiary ceased to be a DTC-eligible individual, less any portion of that amount that was repaid to the Minister within that period, (ii) if the disability assistance payment is made after the calendar year in which the beneficiary attains 50 years of age but before the calendar year in which they attain 60 years of age and the beneficiary ceased to be a DTC-eligible individual before the calendar year in which they attained 50 years of age, the total amount of grants and bonds paid into the RDSP within the period (expressed in number of years) determined by the following formula that ended before the day on which the beneficiary ceased to be a DTC-eligible individual, less any portion of that amount that was repaid to the Minister within that period: 60 – n where n is the beneficiary’s age on December 31 of the calendar year in which the disability assistance payment is made, (iii) if the disability assistance payment is made after the calendar year in which the beneficiary attains 50 years of age but before the calendar year in which they attain 60 years of age and the beneficiary ceased to be a DTC-eligible individual after the calendar year in which they attained 49 years of age, the total amount of grants and bonds paid into the RDSP during the period beginning on January 1 of the year that is 10 years before the year in which the disability assistance payment is made and ending on the day preceding the day on which the beneficiary ceased to be a DTC-eligible individual, less any portion of that amount that was repaid to the Minister within that period, or (iv) if the disability assistance payment is made after the calendar year in which the beneficiary attains 59 years of age, nil, B is the amount of any grant or bond that is paid into the RDSP during the period beginning on the day on which the beneficiary ceased to be a DTC-eligible individual and ending on the day on which the disability assistance payment is made, and C is the amount of any grant or bond that has been repaid since the day on which the beneficiary ceased to be a DTC-eligible individual. (2) An issuer that repays the amount referred to in paragraph (1)(a) is to do so from the grants and bonds that were paid into the RDSP within the applicable period referred to in the description of A in paragraph (1)(c) and within the period referred to in the description of B in paragraph (1)(c), in the order in which they were paid into it. (3) Subsection (1) does not apply in respect of any disability assistance payment made in the calendar year in which the beneficiary of the RDSP attains 60 years of age, or in any subsequent calendar year, if the total amount of disability assistance payments made to the beneficiary in that calendar year is less than or equal to the amount determined in accordance with paragraph 146.4(4)(l) of the Income Tax Act for that calendar year. 2012, c. 31, s. 73 2021, c. 23, s. 99