Overview
Children’s Special Allowances is a federal program that pays government agencies and institutions that care for children, such as children’s aid societies. The CSA program pays the agency caring for each child the equivalent of the National Child Benefit Supplement, Canada Child Benefit and the Disability Benefit for which the child is eligible. Although individual caregivers, like foster parents, can’t apply for this program, licensed agencies can, at their discretion, direct payments directly to a child’s foster parents.