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Every little bit helps. Child Plan’s mission is helping families provide for their children today and plan for their education and future. It’s a surprise to many that Canada has this great program, but not surprising no one knows about it. The free Canada Child Dental Care benefit for your child application […]

  Every little bit helps. In today’s challenging financial world Canada Child Benefits helps families who are facing many financial challenges provide for their children’s needs and future. The Government of Canada announced the new increases to the Canada Child Benefit (CCB) for 2024-25. Below is an outline of the new Canada […]

A Child Plan™ is a type of life insurance policy that combines life insurance with a savings component to provide both protection and savings for your child’s future needs. Here are some benefits of a Child Plan™: Flexibility A Child Plan™ offers more flexibility than an RESP in terms of how the […]

What’s a Tax Free Savings Account (TFSA) A Tax-Free Savings Account is a Canadian government registered account available to all Canadians over the age of 18. Started in 2009, contributors (depositors) are permitted to deposit a government set amount of money every year into their TFSA account. The amount of the annual […]

Is The RESP A Government Program? RESP is also called Registered Education Savings Plan, is a tax-deferred savings account for a child’s future education. Your RESP deposit is matched 20% by the Canadian government up to the year your child turns 18th. Anyone can open and deposit to an RESP (parents, grandparents, […]

In Our Continuing Series Of Millennial Parents’ Guide to Financial Planning For Children By Michael Lampel I recently went to an open house with my wife to look at what $1 million would buy today. What I saw made me seriously concerned about our daughter’s future. A four-bedroom house with two bathrooms […]

First, let me address the difference between this generation (millennials) and my generation (baby boomers) by sharing the story of my first job after graduating with a degree in Economics in 1987. My first job was selling trucking services for a company called Inter City Ttruck Lines in Montreal. My first year […]

I’m not going to lie, when I first opened a TFSA (Tax Free Savings Account) around four years ago, I really didn’t understand why. I was taking the advice of my family advisor, and while he tried to explain how the account worked, I was not fully grasping it. So I went […]