Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Disability savings plan part of “the business of life”

Mark Green, financial advisor and life insurance agent
with Desjardins Financial Security Investments Inc.
in Regina, speaks about the Registered Disability
Savings Plan (RDSP), the Canada Disability Savings
 Grant and the Canada Disability Savings Bond at
the South Saskatchewan Independent Living Centre
(SSILC) in Moose Jaw on April 23, 2014.
 Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy


As long as an individual meets the requirements, they can open a savings plan.

“If you’re on social services ... the government will put in $1,000 a year even if you contribute nothing,” said Mark Green, financial advisor and life insurance agent with Desjardins Financial Security Investments Inc. in Regina. “That’s the disability savings bond. They will do a maximum of $20,000 so $1,000 a year for 20 years.”

Green made a presentation to a small group of people on Wednesday at the South Saskatchewan Independent Living Centre (SSILC) in Moose Jaw about the Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP), the Canada Disability Savings Grant and the Canada Disability Savings Bond.

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