Nearly $10 Billion in COVID Relief Benefits Paid to Ineligible Applicants: CRA
The commissioner added that his agency aimed to audit about 875,000 people who received payments under those emergency programs
Nearly $10 billion worth of COVID pandemic relief payments were sent to ineligible applicants, and to date, less than 20 percent of the amount has been recovered, a report by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) recently confirmed.
In a brief submitted to the Senate national finance committee on May 14, the CRA broke down that total amount into two categories, indicating that it was based on 544,000 cases the agency had audited up until the 2023 year-end of people who received federal COVID-related benefits. ---More...
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