Disability discount

If you are 16 or older and have one of the disabilities listed below, you may qualify for a 25 per cent discount on your Basic Autoplan — even if you don’t drive the vehicle you’re insuring,

Kinds of disabilities

In order to qualify for a Fuel tax Refund, you must have one or more of the following disabilities:

• Have lost a limb or permanent functional loss of lower limbs.
• Are permanently dependent on a wheelchair.
• Have a permanent impairment of movement such that your use of public transportation would be hazardous to you (whether or not public transportation is available). A certification from a medical practitioner is required.
• Have permanent sight impairment and are not eligible to hold a driver's licence under the Motor Vehicle Act. A certification from a medical practitioner is required.
• Have a permanent mental disability to the extent that your use of public transportation would be hazardous to you (whether or not public transportation is available). A certification from a medical practitioner is required.
• Receive a 100 per cent disability pension as a result of active service in any war while a member of Her Majesty's forces.
• Are receiving or would receive, but for having reached age of 65, assistance or a supplement under the Employment and Assistance for Persons with Disabilities Act.

Further questions? Call theTaxpayer Services:
Lower Mainland: 604-660-4524
Elsewhere in B.C.: 1-877-388-4440

How to apply

To apply for a disability discount on your insurance, you must first be qualified for a provincial government fuel tax refund.

Follow these steps:

1. Complete the fuel tax rebate form (PDF).
2. Send the form to B.C.’s Ministry of Small Business and Revenue:

Consumer Taxation Branch
PO Box 9628 stn Prov Gov
Victoria BC V8W 9N6

The Ministry of Small Business and Revenue will send you a Motor Fuel Tax Act registration number. Take this number to your Autoplan broker, along with your Vehicle Licence and Owner's Certificate of Insurance (you would have been given this when you first insured your vehicle).

Find out more about getting your Fuel Tax refund » .

Get more discounts

Within certain limits, you can get backdated discounts if you have had a disability and owned a vehicle for a while. When you visit the Autoplan broker, take your first letter from the Ministry of Small Business and Revenue that shows when you first became eligible for the fuel tax rebate. We will send you a refund for the discount that you were entitled to.

If you are over 65 and have a disability, you can get both the disability discount and the Senior's rate class. Please note, we do not backdate Senior's rates.