Canada Disability Benefit Regulations (SOR/2025-35)

Marginal note:Reconsideration of benefit

• 18 (1) Subject to section 19, a person who is dissatisfied with a decision made under the Act or these Regulations that no benefit be paid to them, or respecting the amount of a benefit that the person has received or will receive, may, within 180 days after the day on which the person is notified in writing of the decision, make a request to the Minister for a reconsideration of that decision.

• Marginal note:Reconsideration of penalty

  (2) Subject to section 19, a person against whom a penalty has been imposed by the Minister under section 35 and who is dissatisfied with that decision or with the amount of the penalty may, within 180 days after the day on which the person is notified in writing of the decision, make a request to the Minister for a reconsideration of that decision.

• Marginal note:Contents of request

  (3) A request for reconsideration must be made in writing to the Minister and contain the following information:

  • (a) the name and address of the applicant or the beneficiary, as applicable, and their Social Insurance Number or the reference number assigned to the benefit application;

  • (b) if the person referred to in paragraph (a) is incapable of managing their own affairs, the name and address of their representative; and

  • (c) the decision for which a request for reconsideration is being made and a statement of the reasons and facts that form the basis of that request.

• Marginal note:Minister’s decision

  (4) The Minister must, within a reasonable time, reconsider the decision referred to in the request and may confirm, amend or rescind it, and may approve payment of a benefit, determine the amount of a benefit or determine that no benefit is payable. In all cases, the Minister must notify in writing the person who made the request of the Minister’s decision and the reasons for it.