No, you do not get a tax slip for the Canada Child Benefit. The CRA does not issue a T4, T5, or any other slip for CCB payments because the benefit is tax-free, and you do not report it anywhere on your income tax return.1Canada.ca. Canada Child Benefit (CCB) – How Much You Can Get What you do have to do is file your return every year, because your return is what the CRA uses to work out how much CCB to pay you.
Why the CCB Comes Without a Slip
Tax slips exist to report money the government treats as taxable. A T4 reports employment income; a T5 reports investment income. The CRA describes the Canada Child Benefit as a “tax-free monthly payment,” so it sits outside that reporting system entirely.1Canada.ca. Canada Child Benefit (CCB) – How Much You Can Get There is no line on your return that asks about it, and no slip is generated because there is nothing to report.
The practical consequence: CCB deposits do not push you into a higher tax bracket, do not reduce your GST/HST credit, and do not lower other income-tested benefits that key off your net income. The whole deposit is yours.
How To Confirm What You Were Paid
Even without a slip, you can pull up an exact payment record. Sign in to CRA My Account, open your individual account, and go to “Benefits and credits.” The CCB section shows your next payment date, the full schedule for the benefit year (July through June), and a statement of account with amounts and balances.2Canada Revenue Agency. Payment Dates – Canada Child Benefit (CCB) That is the document to pull if a lender, a family lawyer, or your own records need proof of what you have received.
You may remember the RC62 statement. That slip belonged to the old Universal Child Care Benefit, which was taxable. The UCCB was replaced by the CCB, and no equivalent slip exists for the current benefit. An old RC62 in your files relates to a different program from a different year.
Benefits That Look Similar but Do Generate a Slip
Some government payments arrive alongside the CCB in a family’s budget but are treated differently at tax time. Social assistance and workers’ compensation benefits produce a T5007. Amounts in Box 11 of a T5007 go on line 14500 of your return, with an offsetting deduction available on line 25000.3Canada Revenue Agency. Statement of Benefits T5007 If you receive both social assistance and the CCB, only the social assistance side gets a slip and gets reported. The CCB stays invisible to the tax system.
If a T5007 arrives and you are not sure what it covers, check Box 10 (workers’ compensation) and Box 11 (social assistance). Your CCB will not be in either box.
Provincial and Territorial Top-Ups
Many provinces and territories run their own child benefits and pay them in the same monthly deposit as the federal CCB. The B.C. Family Benefit, for example, is described by the province as a “tax-free monthly payment” combined with the federal transfer.4Province of British Columbia. B.C. Family Benefit Programs like the Ontario Child Benefit work the same way. Because these top-ups share the federal benefit’s tax-free status, they do not produce slips either, and you do not need to separate the federal and provincial amounts for any tax purpose.
Filing Your Return Is Still Mandatory
This is where families get caught. The CCB is tax-free, but your tax return is what keeps it flowing. Both you and your spouse or common-law partner have to file every year, even if one or both of you had no income. The CRA uses your adjusted family net income from the prior year to calculate the payments you receive from July through the following June.5Canada.ca. Canada Child Benefit Miss a return, and the calculation cannot run. Payments stop.
The filing deadline is April 30. File on time and your July payment arrives on schedule. File late and payments may pause until the CRA processes the return. Once your late return is assessed and eligibility confirmed, the CRA issues retroactive payments for the missed months on the next scheduled payment date.6Canada Revenue Agency. Keep Getting Your Payments – Canada Child Benefit (CCB) Retroactive payment is real, but a gap of several months is hard on a household that counts on the deposit, so filing on time is the simplest way to protect cash flow.
How Much the CCB Pays
For the July 2025 to June 2026 benefit year, the maximum annual amounts are:
- Under 6: $7,997 per year, or $666.41 per month
- Ages 6 to 17: $6,748 per year, or $562.33 per month
Full amounts go to families with an adjusted family net income under $37,487. Above that, the benefit is reduced based on income and number of children, with a second reduction rate applying once family net income passes $81,222.1Canada.ca. Canada Child Benefit (CCB) – How Much You Can Get The CRA reruns your entitlement every July using the return you filed for the prior calendar year, so an income change during the year shows up in your payment amount later, not right away.
Newcomers Without a Prior-Year Canadian Return
If you recently arrived in Canada, you can apply for the CCB once you meet the residency and eligibility requirements, but the CRA will not have a Canadian return on file to base your payments on. You have to file a return for the year you arrived and report your world income, meaning income from all sources inside and outside Canada, converted to Canadian dollars. Your spouse or common-law partner’s net world income is also required, whether or not that spouse is a Canadian resident.7Canada Revenue Agency. Completing Your Return for Newcomers If either of you earned nothing, enter zero. The fields still have to be completed for the CRA to calculate your entitlement.