Approximately 190,000 Canadians have had to repay their Canada Emergency Response Benefit cheques to the government as of June 3, according to the latest information from the Canada Revenue Agency.
The federal government established the CERB program back in March to help Canadians who couldn’t work due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It offers $2,000 per month for up to four months.The repayments are from people who were not eligible for the benefit. It could have been that they were unknowingly covered under another COVID-19 federal aid program; had been rehired during the time they were still receiving CERB; or had applied out of confusion during the early days of the program.
In speaking on CTV’s Power Play, Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion Minister Carla Qualtrough estimated that between 1 and 2 per cent of the 8.4 million Canadians who’ve applied for CERB did so fraudulently.
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