Over the course of the pandemic, the federal government doled out more than $9 million in relief funding to people who had died prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, according to federal government documents — and the estates of those who received the money won’t need to pay it back.
In June 2020, the Liberal government announced one-time payments of $600 to Canadians with disabilities, to help defray the cost of the COVID-19 pandemic. All total, 1.7 million Canadians — living and dead — received funding under this program.
The documents, first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter, an online Ottawa news outlet, show benefit payments were also made to 4,637 people with addresses outside of Canada, but they do not give a monetary value for the total amount paid out.
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