Ontario Trillium Benefit Payment Dates (2026)
The Ontario Trillium Benefit is issued on the 10th of the month. When the 10th is a Saturday, Sunday or statutory holiday, the CRA pays on the business day ahead of it, which moved three 2026 payments: January 9, May 8 and October 9. Not everyone is paid monthly, though. Depending on the amount, and on a choice made on the tax return, the whole year can arrive in a single payment in July or in June.
Next payment
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2026 OTB dates
Where a date comes before the 10th, the last column but one gives the reason.
| Month | Payment date | Day | Off the 10th? | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | January 9, 2026 | Friday | the 10th is a Saturday | |
| February | February 10, 2026 | Tuesday | ||
| March | March 10, 2026 | Tuesday | ||
| April | April 10, 2026 | Friday | ||
| May | May 8, 2026 | Friday | the 10th is a Sunday | |
| June | June 10, 2026 | Wednesday | ||
| July | July 10, 2026 | Friday | ||
| August | August 10, 2026 | Monday | ||
| September | September 10, 2026 | Thursday | ||
| October | October 9, 2026 | Friday | the 10th is a Saturday | |
| November | November 10, 2026 | Tuesday | ||
| December | December 10, 2026 | Thursday |
Monthly, or one payment
How the OTB arrives depends on your annual entitlement, which adds together the Ontario sales tax credit, the energy and property tax credit and, for northern residents, the Northern Ontario energy credit:
- More than $500: you choose on your return between twelve monthly payments starting July 2026 and a single payment when the benefit year closes, on June 10, 2027. The total is the same either way.
- $500 or less: the CRA pays it all at once in the first payment month, usually July.
- $2 or less: there is no payment at all.
Waiting for June suits people who'd rather have one larger sum, but the money arrives up to eleven months later than the monthly route would pay it.
What else moves the timing
Eligibility is checked on the first of each month. Move out of Ontario on November 10 and you keep the November payment but none after it; move from Sudbury to London in November and the Northern Ontario energy credit stops from December.
File late and the dates shift too. If your 2025 return is assessed after June 19, 2026, the first payment, including anything owed for earlier months, comes four to eight weeks after the assessment, and the rest follow on the regular dates.
Cheques are mailed on the 10th of each month if you don't get your tax refund by direct deposit. Ontario asks you to get in touch if a payment you qualify for hasn't arrived by July 24, or by the 24th of a later month, and the CRA wants ten working days to pass before you call about it.
Common questions
What day is the Ontario Trillium Benefit paid?
On the 10th of each month. When the 10th is a Saturday, Sunday or statutory holiday, it goes out on the business day ahead. In 2026 that moved the January, May and October payments to the 9th, 8th and 9th.
Can I get the Ontario Trillium Benefit in one payment?
Yes, if your annual entitlement is over $500 and you choose it on your tax return. The whole 2026 benefit-year amount is then paid on June 10, 2027. Entitlements of $500 or less are always paid as one payment in the first month, usually July.
When do 2026 Ontario Trillium Benefit payments start?
In July 2026, based on your 2025 return, and they run through June 2027.