Canada Child Benefit

• Canada Child Benefit gets smallest annual increase on record this year

  The small increase, which is tied to the pace of inflation, reflects slow price growth last year amid the economic crisis linked to COVID-19.

  Money

  Jul 20
• Fiscal update would boost child benefit and wage subsidy, calls for airline refunds

  Families with kids under six would receive up to an extra $1,200 per child in 2021.

  Money

  Nov 30, 2020
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• 2 million Canadians who haven’t yet filed taxes could face benefits interruption, CRA warns

  Canadians who don't file their taxes in time for the CRA to review them by early September may face benefit payment delays.

  Money

  Jul 21, 2020
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• Women ‘swept under the carpet’: No relief for lost child, spousal support due to COVID-19

  The federal government has offered no financial relief to those whose ex-partners can’t afford support payments during the novel coronavirus pandemic.

  Canada

  May 14, 2020
• Child and spousal support not covered by government’s coronavirus emergency benefit plan

  Single parents whose ex-partners can't pay child and spousal support due to COVID-19 don't qualify for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit, Global News has learned.

  Canada

  Apr 14, 2020
• Trudeau repeats call to stay home, says many Canadians flouting rules

  Trudeau said he was leaning on restrictions provinces have put in place rather than issuing a mandatory national stay-home order.

  Canada

  Apr 2, 2020
• Coronavirus: Canada is enhancing its child-care benefit. Here’s how much parents will get

  The measure would deliver almost $2 billion in extra support for parents who may have been laid off from their jobs or unable to work due to the novel coronavirus outbreak.

  Canada

  Mar 18, 2020
• Cabinet minister Ahmed Hussen stops in Barrie to highlight programs available for young families

  The event, which took place at Goodness Me! on Park Place Boulevard, highlighted the parental sharing benefit, the tax-free Canada child benefit and the first-time homebuyer incentive.

  Canada

  Mar 4, 2020
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• Federal taxpayer watchdog launches probe into child benefits program

  Taxpayers' ombudsman Sherra Profit says her office has received ongoing complaints about difficulty proving or maintaining eligibility for the Canada Child Benefit despite repeatedly raising the issues with the government and the Canada Revenue Agency

  Canada

  Dec 10, 2019
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• Canada Child Benefit helped reduce number of families with severe food insecurity: study

  The Canada Child Benefit is having an impact on very poor families, but researchers think it could do a better job of helping them put food on the table.

  Politics

  Nov 7, 2019