Forms and Policies

Effective July 1, 2011, the Vital Statistics Agency implemented a new birth registration form that includes an option for parents to automatically apply to Canada Revenue Agency for a Social Insurance Number and the Child Tax Benefit for the newborn child.  

This circular has been revised to allow benefits to be issued for a maximum of two benefit months before receiving confirmation of identification (normally the Manitoba Health Card).  Manitoba Health has advised that it takes, on average, five weeks after the birth of a child for a family to be issued a new Health Card.