Housing support
These benefits can help you lower the cost of your housing expenses, like rent, heating, and electricity.
Common housing support benefits
Nunavut
If you are an eligible employee of the Government of Nunavut who owns or rents a home, you may qualify to receive $400 per month Nunavut Household Allowance to offset some of the costs of owning or renting a home in the territory.
$400 per month.
Easy application
Nunavut
If you are a senior, a homeowner resident in Nunavut, and have an income of up to $100,000 per year, the Senior Fuel Subsidy (SFS) program can help offset the cost of heating your home.
Fuel subsidy up to 100 percent
Easy application
Federal
The Multigenerational Home Renovation Tax Credit is a new refundable tax credit for the costs of certain renovation expenses to an eligible dwelling to establish a secondary unit. The secondary unit must allow a senior or an adult who is eligible for the disability tax credit to live with a qualifying relative. This amount may be claimed on your tax return (starting from the 2023 tax return).
You can claim up to $50,000 in qualifying expenditures for each qualifying renovation that is completed. The tax credit is 15% of your costs, up to a maximum of $7,500, for each claim you are eligible to make.
Easy application