Tag: CERB
$4.6B in COVID-19 financial aid went to ineligible recipients, audit finds
Canada’s auditor general says that while the federal government effectively delivered emergency…
Pandemic benefits were too generous with businesses, stringent with workers: experts – CityNews Ottawa
OTTAWA — Benefits rolled out at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic…
‘Not fair’: CERB recipients who now have to pay the money back share their stories
Two years after the federal government made the unprecedented move to give…
Tasha Kheiriddin: CERB problems are bad news for proponents of a guaranteed basic income | National Post
If one truly values ‘fairness,’ one should think twice about a universal…
Employer frustrated at Canadians who ‘just don’t want to work’ – BNN Bloomberg
Some business owners across Canada are finding it increasingly difficult to hire…
Federal government sent $9 million worth of COVID relief funding to dead people | Edmonton Journal
And the estates of those who received the money won’t need to…
PBO predicts $363-billion deficit, issues warning about stimulus spending | CBC News
Parliament’s spending watchdog says the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic…
Canada blows past estimated cost of Canada Recovery Benefit at $2,000 a month | National Post
The Canada Recovery Benefit was initially estimated by Finance officials to cost…
Ineligible self-employed Canadians who received CERB due to ‘unclear’ information won’t be forced to repay | National Post
The decision is likely to create a major sigh of relief among…
More than $636M in CERB benefits paid to 300,000 teens aged 15 to 17, documents show | National Post
Many of the teenaged CERB recipients were high schoolers Source: More than…
Opinion: Forgiving ineligible CERB recipients would be unfair to Canadians who followed the rules
CERB was not designed for students, the retired or the unemployed, nor…
‘We’re not going to have a Christmas,’ says woman told to repay $18,500 in CERB by year’s end | CBC News
A Charlottetown cake-maker disputes a letter from the Canada Revenue Agency saying…
How Canadians can get a $400 tax credit — no questions asked — for working from home during COVID-19 | National Post
You can get some cash back for sitting in your new home…
Ottawa eyes ‘pre-loaded stimulus’ in Canadians’ savings accounts – BNN Bloomberg
As Canadians look to Ottawa to repair an economy ravaged by COVID-19,…
No, 800,000 ineligible Canadians did not receive the CERB.
Today, the National Post published a piece in their Canadian Politics section…
National Post Pulls Factually Incorrect Story That Falsely Claimed 800,000 ‘Ineligible People’ Received CERB
The National Post pulled a story that falsely claimed ‘more than 800,000…
Tory MP demands answers why 800K non-tax-filers received CERB at cost of nearly $1.7B | National Post
‘This is a huge amount… I want the government to do a…
