CRA My Account (sign up for your Canada Revenue Agency online account)

Your free online Canada Revenue Agency account, the main route for many benefits: you can apply for child benefits, fill out Part A of the disability tax credit application, see how your benefits were calculated, and update your address and other personal information.

Program in Canada-wide. Government benefits Money, grants & charity Parents & families Students Seniors

When: Register any time. A CRA security code sent by mail reaches the address the CRA has on file within 10 business days; the document verification service on a mobile device gives immediate access.

How to reach them

1. Go to their application form.
2. Say who you are and what you are offering or asking.
3. Come back here and tell us if they answered.

Other ways, if that one is quiet

• PhoneGo to the phone line
  It workedNo answer

• PhoneCall 1-800-959-8281
  It workedNo answer

Where else they are

Their website is canada.ca/.../cra-login-services.html.

Good to know

• For whomAnyone with a Social Insurance Number who has filed a tax return in the current or previous year; to register you need amounts from your most recent assessed tax return from within the last 2 years.
• CostFree
• LanguagesEnglish, French
• Their stepsHave ready your Social Insurance Number, date of birth and amounts from your most recent assessed tax return (from the last 2 years). On the CRA Register page pick a sign-in: a CRA user ID and password, a Sign-In Partner (your online banking login) or a provincial partner (BC or Alberta); GCKey cannot be used for the CRA account. Set up multi-factor authentication, then verify your identity with the document verification service on a mobile device (immediate) or a CRA security code mailed to you (within 10 business days). Sign in to apply for benefits, check how they were calculated, and keep your address and personal details up to date.

We read all of this on their own website. If something has changed, tell us here. It takes 20 seconds, needs no account, and nothing is deleted: the old fact stays until a person checks yours.