A Conservative MP says Canada Revenue Agency has some explaining to do after more than 800,000 ineligible people got Canada emergency response benefit cheques.
CRA’s own records — filed in an inquiry of ministry tabled in the House of Commons — show 823,850 people who didn’t file a tax return in the past year received $2,000 monthly CERB cheques at a cost to taxpayers of nearly $1.7 billion, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
The federal government approved paying CERB to unemployed tax filers who made at least $5,000 in 2019.
The CRA didn’t explain how non-tax filers could have claimed the benefit.
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