More than 800,000 ineligible people get CERB

[MikePal]

Anybody in their right mind saw this coming...Now.. how do you think Rev Can and the Liberals going to get back OUR tax dollars back from these cheats.

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 CRA didn’t explain how non-tax filers could have claimed the benefit.

The CERB program was first budgeted at $24 billion, but by the time it expired Oct. 3, payments exceeded $81 billion.

More than 14,000 people in the top income tax bracket — earning $210,371 or more in 2019 — filed for CERB, saying they were without income.

[trimmer21]

I can't wait for the clawbacks to start and start they will sure as God made little green apples. "Nice hair" won't mean jack squat then,will it?

[Deer Wrastler]

Its a shyte show for employers. We have people who are calling in sick half the week and very likely claiming CERB as they are keeping their paycheck below the threshold for CERB entitlement. Attendance infractions through the roof ever since we returned to work, hard to motivate people to work when theres so much unregulated free cheese being tossed to everyone with their hands out.

They need to do a better job determining who needs CERB and who doesn't. My neighbours on a fixed income who didnt have any money to put towards a fence last year just built massive garden boxes and renovated their back yard a few weeks ago, obviously CERB money paying for it. Neighbours all around us upgrading things all at the same time and in the middle of a pandemic....hmmm.....

People I know who were unemployed/houseless/no real bills to pay before covid hit got the same payout as myself who has a house, a pregnant wife at the time and 2 young growing boys and I was laid off. Not really fair to see them get the same amount and blow it on partying and luxury items and myself being the responsible one barely had enough for diapers and formula, every penny was accounted for and I had to dig into a loan to keep afloat for 2 months. Very difficult to live off 500 a week in my circumstances.

[Gilroy]

Wait until your on pension.

[dean.f]

I've heard plenty of people (more than I would expect) who volunteered themselves for layoff because CERB was high enough to justify a paid vacation. Mostly because of reduced work hours shrinking their income.

[kokes]

this should not come as a surprise to anyone...trudeau just buying votes, handing out $$ like confetti, lull everyone into a sense of security..

"Any government powerful enough to give the people all that they want is also powerful enough to take from the people all that they have."

[MikePal]

Very difficult to live off 500 a week in my circumstances.

Sorry to hear DW that the pandemic has hit your family so hard, but good to hear that the taxpayers were able to a least soften the blow. Yours is an example of the scenario that the financial aid was designed to help.

What sickens me, that there are so many claimants that have 'stolen' the money thru subterfuge from the taxpayers. I guess they didn't realize that their SIN links them to the crime and the CRA is unrelenting. This could hurt them for many years to come.

[rick_iles]

I can't wait for the clawbacks to start and start they will sure as God made little green apples. "Nice hair" won't mean jack squat then,will it?

How will they get the money back ? Can’t get blood from a stone !!

[73hunter]

Do we really think that the Liberal government (or any for that matter) is going to claw that money back and alienate all those people ? It would not be a stretch to estimate a high percentage of them as Liberal/NDP voters.

What will happen is has always happened, those that are working will be forced to pay for those who won’t. And on it goes.

There are similar fraudulent issues with the wage subsidy and other relief programs - anyone with a registered company would have taken advantage of the $40k interest free loans which included $10k forgivable.

The kids will pay.

[fishfood]

I was listening to the radio program last night they were talking about this.

Many people on assisted living took it and now they have nothing. Some provinces are trying to get it back others are letting them keep it .

One of the stories an older lady .

"Her friend asked if she had gotten the covid money . She was told everyone is getting it she applied because it was so easy . She redid her house with new furniture as the other stuff was old. . "

Well the government cut her off her assisted living pay. There are so Many other stories.

As Mike posted plenty of it went into beefing up the gang turfs . Free guns for all the bangers lol.

It's going to be a nightmare trying to get much of it back.

I guess Maybe the wealthy ones can pay it back they didn't need it to begin with [emoji6]. Chump change to some who took it.



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