The Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA) has announced that Canadians will receive their one-time groceries benefit payment on June 5.
The payment is part of the government’s new Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit, which is set to replace the existing GST/HST credit.
“This payment will provide immediate support to more than 12 million Canadians with low and modest incomes to help manage day-to-day essential costs until the CGEB comes into effect,” the CRA statement reads.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit on Jan. 26, stating that the federal government is raising the existing GST credit amount by 25 per cent and providing a one-time payment “equivalent to 50 per cent of the GST credit this year.”
“Right now, a family of four receives about $1,100 a year with the existing GST credit. With the new Canada Groceries and Essentials benefit, that same family will receive up to $1,890 this year and about $1,400 a year for each of the next four years,” Carney said.
More to come.
The 12 million sounds like a lot of people, getting the benefit, right. But it only represents 30 percent of the Canadian population. This renamed benefit (GST rebate)continues to go to the same people as before. since the truly uber rich are 1 or 2 percent, then the rest of us continue to get nothing from this government. just the expectation to pay the the taxes and to keep quiet.
Here’s a little extra cash to buy a your last decent meal before we reduce you to potatoesq and tree bark as your only affordable food sources.
And remember, vote Liberal
If the government didn’t tax me to death I could afford my own. Take your bribe and shove it!
Middle average folks have worked hard all their lives and contributed to CPP, OAP, TAXES, GST. HST, HIDDEN TAXES, INCOME TAX, PROPERTY TAXES…AND TAPPED OUT.
Middle incomes, pensioners are cut off with the magic number for income. Why….why…why..
We have to eat food too.
The crumbs dished out this time..won’t buy a heck of a lot of food for the chosen few groups.
Just the crumbs and not the cookies. Again.
We don’t need our money back from the government we need the government to stay out of our pockets.
Oh goody. I can buy a stalk of celery at Roblaw$ where Jenni (PP) serves the board.
How about fixing the problems instead of giving Canadians their own money back and calling it a benefit.
One hand takes and the other gives back a fraction of what was taken, to some! Keep drinking your kool-aid people
The headline should read more debt piled on Canadians in an attempt to buy votes.
PP just won’t give up his free chef, butler, and mansion. Groceries? LOL
So called news site doesn’t bother to put important information pertaining to the subject. How about pointing out the max annual income a person can make before they no longer qualify?
Either way I just love that the government is using my tax dollars for what is essentially a digital breadline, to help pay for the expensive food that is expensive because of poor policy decisions made by our government.
We are all working, why only them? Talking about income? We work to make our life better, yet we are the milking cow of the government with no special treatment..where is equality there? 😭😭😭… We squeeze our strength to have a better quality of life yet the government always favors those lazy ones.
I won’t receive this! If you help one Canadian, the government should help all!
Breaking: Bangladesh sends aid to Canada to help with the food crisis.
Should change your headline it should say SOME Canadians will get a grocery rebate
should be for everyone otherwise they are using my tax dollars to pay for other portions groceries when I can barely afford my own.
“Hey guys, seeing as how we increased the industrial carbon tax in order to make diesel more expensive and therefore your food more expensive, we’re going to also give you a credit to help pay for a fraction of the resulting price increases.”
The very definition of the government creating a problem and then rushing in like the white knight to solve it.
Grocery credit is NOT replacing the GST credit as quoted in beginning of your article, seriously bad enough not fact checking, but printing false info is pretty bad
THE ONLY ONES TO BENEIT WILL BE THE GROCERY BARONS, WHO WILL UP PRICES. AI IS HERE TO STAY.
And for the rest of us! Working class taking the hit again are we.
so excited i couldn’t sit down and i was wearing my man mades.
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PP’s gf is an advisor to Roblaw$ so don’t expect his minions to support this. Not enough for rich people!
LOL @ Robert Brook. Yeah, trump bombs girls schools to deflect from the other girls in the Epstein files.
Send yours back Fandenbruck instead of babbling here.
Socialist government on full display. Head line should read “some Canadians” the media always try to butter up these announcements made by Carney. Its paid for by the working class
I feel for Canada sonetime, than I remember they voted for this. This is just the beginning.
I wish President Trump would have a talk with Carney on how to run a country,because Carney and his liberal boot licker that stand behind him don’t have clue.Drain the swamp
Some will use it wisely, but many will spent it on Drugs, Booze and Tattoos.
The wealthy emperer throwing stale bread to the poor. Canada , now a third world country. It all started in 2015.
Take all our money cause inflation then want people to be grateful for a small amount they give back witch will cover very little. Not everyone will get it.
More kickbacks for the ones that DRAW the most funding, while contributing NOTHING back in. Career parasites. With a VERY SMALL percentage aside from this fact.
Poor decisions lead to raised prices, then that same government wants praise for kicking back a little bit of money to only SOME people? Some countries pay 3 cents per liter for gas, which shows greed and mismanagement in Canada, not resource issues. Canada SHOULD be the richest, most prosperous country with our extensive resources, yet we’re declining across the board. Look who’s driving. That shows why we’re crashing.
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Not all Canadians nothing for seniors EVER
This is no help at all and there are so many individuals & families that need it but won’t receive it because only the poorest of the poor are eligible for it. While don’t believe it should go to every Canadian because there are some that don’t need it but many more people who need it are actually going to receive it. The eligibility threshold should be much higher because not just poor that need it. Plus, this rebate is barely going to make a difference in the lives of those who will receive it.
They had to figure out which “Paul” to rob in order to pay “Peter”
i checked the CRA website yesterday, mine is $266. 72 cents a day, thanks for nothing Carnery!
The Liberals refuse to cut taxes like the GST, they just create more bureaucracies to subsidize the taxes creating more government waste. It will be a relief for everyone in Alberta when we separate from Canada next year.
YOU MEAN SELECT FEW, THOSE LIVING IN POVERTY ONLY ! THE REST OF US, WHILE STILL STRUGGLING, NO HELP. JUST A SWIFT KICK IN THE ASS
I GET NOTHING, LIKE MOST
We all have to buy groceries that have risen in price so why doest everybody get a grocery rebate? Meat isn’t even affordable now so why don’t the liberals do something about the prices we have to pay at the grocery stores!
More money for the people.who dont need it. They will buy booze and drugs
Tax dollars were never meant to be used to buy votes from the weak minded.
The l I b t a r d s on here are in a frenzy believing Carney is looking out for Canadians !!! No l I b t a r d s he’s looking out for immigrants, tax scammers and welfare bums the rest of us can starve.
More uneven wealth distribution from the Liberals.
Carney likes to prance around and tell the country how he’s so different from Justin, but he’s exactly the same – just with boring socks, a bad hair cut, and a banker’s sense of humour.
Cool, another benefit that my family and I don’t qualify for because we are much to wealthy.
Thanks for helping me out goverent.
Redneck PP whiners can send theirs back rather than whine here. Right?
A YEAR
It’s the poorest and seniors on a lousy pittance of retirement who should receive it
Not folks who have money, who make over 30k a heqr for a single person
Don’t headline this with CANADIANS. IT SHOULD READ SOME CANADIANS OR AS YOU LATER STATE 12 MILLION CANADIANS. THIS is just another example of the government believing they know how to spend your money better than you do. Our rapidly accelerating descent into Communism
It’s about time this stupid left wing idiot put Canadians first. Stop giving out our hard earned tax money to other countries. Take care of your citizens first.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Vote buying without actually lowering taxes, or addressing the inefficiency that they themselves caused… Liberals
More taking from working Canadians to give to those who don’t work???
Why work? You just lose free dental, free subsidies, free groceries, and you have to pay for everyone else.
That amount of money a year for groceries is the biggest joke ever.
Another One Of Carnage Car net s LIEs. ??
I think all working Canadians should get this benefit we pay tons in taxes and get no help. Come on we have to buy food too.
The last time there was a one time grocery tax benefit or whatever it was called it was 250.00 for every single person who was eligible. This time it’s really needed and it’s a joke
Everyone should be getting this. The prices in the grocery stores, retail gas doesn’t change no matter who you are. The working class always has to pay. When giving this in June send it to everyone. It’s a damn shame the government treats everyone different.
So what is Low ~ Medium income in Toronto?? To survive in TO today your medium income should be 80k
Ah yes, another taxpayer funded benefit for all the low income new immigrants to Canada. Way to go Carney not even bothering to actually help the people who have had to financially support all NEWCOMERS, new immigrants to CANADA under Trudeau all these years and driven up OUR COST OF LIVING.
Calling it grocery benefit payment fools nobody except liberals, still gst refund. Going to block this to?
We people get a handout one time some we can pay extra in taxes , wake up .
Canadians? Did you meant to say “only some Canadians”? Cause creep just a few dollars over that arbitrary threshold and you’re fucked. You get nothing. How about working towards making things more affordable for everyone?
This report talks about families receiving the grocery benefit. What about seniors? We have to eat too.
The terd is now calling it the grocery benefit making it sound like it’s all new things he’s doing, only an idiot would fall for it
This report talks about families receiving the grocery benefit. What about seniors? We have to eat too.
How about lowering the cost of groceries for everyone? Those of us that make just over the income threshold get screwed. Thanks a lot!!
They gonna skip over the folks on disability like they did last time they gave this rebate???
No, government doesn’t give a rats ass about seniors ask David Eby, It’s about natives and immigrants.
How about reducing the $145/day meal allowance for federals? No receipts required so buy Tim’s and pocket $130 daily!
Thank you Lord Carney for your excessive generosity, you are “too kind”, “ too kind”.
I don’t see any assistance for seniors with low to moderate incomes.
I dont care what a couple anti Canadians say on here. This ‘benefit’ is hardly that. Its a pittance compared to the actual price of groceries for ANYONE! How about work to drop the prices? How about the two perfect azzholes on here who have done everything right and dont need no stinkin handouts tell folks how its done instead of insulting them.
I agree with Roy… We live in a society of victims that continue to take away money from actual fixes.
It has very quickly become a competition of who is the biggest victim, and forget everyone else.
“We need a school lunch program because people can’t afford to feed their own kids”
hear me out… what if… we actually worked on the affordability crisis, instead of just throwing more handouts at people to keep them quiet.
Hey Joey, you pay my share then
They really need to update their eligibility amounts. It does not take into account our grocery prices. Our fuel prices, our shelter costs . And of course the biggest one of all the amount of tax we pay on everything more than once
Yeah, not if you’re a working Canadian, you’re the one paying for this. Refugees, new immigrants, international students and temporary foreign workers will all get it. As well as far-left lazy Canadians that depend on the government and don’t work
Hey Joey
Some people need to try and help themselves, not live of the backs of Canadians generosity we’re tired of paying for all the freeloaders.
A family of 4 only receives any gst rebate if they qualify for it so mist hard working middle class won’t get a cent and are in just as much financial distress as anyone else that does qualify so once again those who work and pay taxes won’t get relief
Yes, the people who are struggling to survive are villains and should be called out as a ‘net drain on society’. Look at them getting a few hundred bucks, now how are we going to pay for private jets for politicians? If you can’t stand your fellow citizens getting some help, maybe go live in a cave somewhere?
Would rather have taxes cut to lower costs.
It is supposed to be for everyday essentials but only given one day of the year. Nothing more than an empty gesture from an empty suit.
Why do people who shop at Food Banks need this benefit? It seems like this is just more LPC vote buying.
Oh, so actual Canadians won’t receive this just those that don’t actually pay taxes and are a net drain on our society. Majority of them don’t seem to have to purchase their own groceries so not sure what this will be going to.
I’ve never qualified for the HST/GST credit. So I guess I and millions of others are just expected to suck up the increased cost of food and groceries? How is that fair?
Carney and the rest of the Liberal elites fill their offshore bank accounts with our tax money and drop a few crumbs for the peons to keep them from seeing what is really happening and the seals clap away and honk their praises for the guy that is fooling them yet again.
So a one time payment for day to day expenses what about the rest of the year. Those day to day expenses are there all year. It will be interesting to see exactly who gets this money.
More handouts aimed at welfare recipients and new Canadians.
What about the rest of us ? you know the other 30 million Canadians we just suck it up I guess. Any former middle class Canadians who voted Liberal this is what you voted for.
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