Employment And Social Development Canada.

The Canada Pension Plan (CPP) children's benefit provides monthly payment to the dependent children of disabled or deseased CPP contributors.

There are two types of CPP children's benefits:

A disabled contributor's child benefits — a monthly payment for a child of the person receiving a CPP disability benefit

A surviving child's benefit — a monthly payment for a child of the deseased contributor, for the benefit to be paid, the deseased contributor must have made a sufficient contributions to the CPP.

A maximum of two children benefits can be paid to a child.

Steps 2Do for you to qualify

To be eligible the child must be either:

Under age 18 or under age 25, and in full-time attendance at a recognized school or University

The child must also be:

The natural child of the contributor a child adopted "legally" or "in fact" in custody and control of the contributor while under the age of 21

A child may be eligible if the parents or guardian:

Is receiving a CPP disability benefit (either the disability benefit or the post-retirement disability benefit) has died and met the contributory retirement for a CPP dead benefit. If the child is age 18 to 21, the child must be attending school full-time at a recognized educational institution in other to receive a children's benefit. Once a child turns 25, they are no longer eligible for these benefits.