[Gerard French]

On the medical worksheet, I have entered the payments made to a nursing home for a dependent's full time attendant care and used the code 2 limitation. However, both the medical expense and the disability deduction are being claimed on schedule 1.

I understand you can claim one or the other but not both.

[Peter@Intuit]

Gerard French, on 21 March 2012 - 10:58 AM, said:

On the medical worksheet, I have entered the payments made to a nursing home for a dependent's full time attendant care and used the code 2 limitation. However, both the medical expense and the disability deduction are being claimed on schedule 1.

I understand you can claim one or the other but not both.

Hi Gerard,

We augmented the medical worksheet this year. Selecting code 2 in the "* Subject to limitation" column will allow the taxpayer to claim up to $10,000 of attendant care expenses and the disability tax credit. If you have in excess of $10,000 of attendant care expenses, you will have to make a decision if you want to claim the excess and not claim the disibility tax credit.

The CRA has some examples of this situation here: http://www.cra-arc.g.../xmpls-eng.html

Hope that helps, and sorry I could not respond to you earlier.

Peter