Various premiers have warned that the private sector has struggled to rehire some workers due to the hard eligibility cut-offs under the program You can save this article by registering for free here.

In June, the CRA extended CERB eligibility by eight weeks, providing an extra $4,000 to eligible Canadians. Previously, you could receive the CERB for up to 16 weeks. Now, the maximum is 24. While the ...

8:48 Universal Basic Income: Can the pandemic make it a reality? Letters recently sent by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) have many self-employed Canadians fretting about whether they’ll have to repay ...

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has launched the Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB) that will replace the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB). The Justin Trudeau government has ensured that all CERB ...

OTTAWA — Parliament’s spending watchdog has put a price tag around talks to extend the Canada Emergency Response Benefit, estimating it could potentially double the current $60-billion budget. Under ...

The BC Court of Appeal has found that the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) is not deductible from damages in a wrongful dismissal case stemming from pandemic lay-offs. It is the first ruling ...

A Liberal MP from Alberta is denying an allegation that he offered a member of his community advice on how to cheat the Canada Emergency Response Benefit. George Chahal, who is the MP for ...

The economic salve of the CERB has changed attitudes about income assistance as COVID-19 has exposed fragility in many facets of the Canadian economy—but UBI is not without its critics For a few ...

After he was temporarily laid off due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, William Don Falconer says he submitted a single application for federal income support through Service Canada. And yet so far, ...