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Headline Details Many Canadians with a disability experience difficulty with banking.
Why is this important?
An effective financial ecosystem should be accessible to all Canadians. Understanding and improving banking accessibility for Canadians with disabilities will promote financial inclusion and equity.
The analysis is based on research and the findings supplied by the adopters of the National Financial Literacy Strategy Measurement Plan. The related findings can be found at the bottom of this page.
Related priorities
This headline relates to the following National Financial Literacy Strategy priorities and target outcomes:
Related findings
In 2021, one in five Canadians with a health condition said their condition made it difficult to deal with their bank.
Initiative: Survey of Consumers' Awareness of their Financial Rights and Responsibilities
Adopter: Financial Consumer Agency of Canada
Of people who said it was too complicated to open an RDSP, 29% cited complications filling in the tax forms and 44% had complications visiting the bank to open a plan.
Initiative: Survey on Savings for Persons with Disabilities
Adopter: Statistics Canada
The most common reasons given for not opening an RDSP were: 1) not having enough money to save (46%); 2) lacking information about the RDSP program (29%); and 3) feeling it was too complicated (15%).
Initiative: Survey on Savings for Persons with Disabilities
Adopter: Statistics Canada
The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada does not endorse, directly or indirectly, any adopters of the Measurement Plan, nor does it make any representations or warranties, express or implied, concerning the adopters' products or services or their fitness for a particular purpose.
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