CERB - AG suspects 27 Billion in over payments

[normaM]

An interesting read even with the darn ads
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/ ... b-benefits
ah yes but CRA watches us :/

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– The CRA is investigating 10 of its employees it suspects received the Canada Emergency Response Benefit while employed by the agency that was charged with doling it out.

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In February, the head of Employment and Social Development Canada’s integrity services told MPs the department had fired 49 workers who had received the benefit while still working for the organization.
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The agency also expects to pour another $692 million in audit, verification and collection efforts until 2026, meaning a total bill of over $1 billion by the end of its post-payment verification programs.

[Catsumi]

Aaah yes. That CERB money pit is always open for more cash.

Lordy, we have the stupidest govt ever on this globe.

[normaM]

the cost of trying to recover the overpayments is crazy. Did they just hand out 2000 a month on a freaking whim
But hey Income Tax time around the corner

[Catsumi]

Remember that the federal govt took on thousands of costly new employees in the last year.

No imagination needed to figure out what dept was fattened.

[Patron]

the cost of trying to recover the overpayments is crazy. Did they just hand out 2000 a month on a freaking whim
But hey Income Tax time around the corner

I know 3 people who got hit with paying back the CERB that they stole, you get a phone call, then a text then a letter when you get that letter you have I think it's 10 days to either pay all that money back instantly or they either freeze your bank account and/or garnishee your wages. If you do not file your income tax for a few yrs thinking that they will forget about it, you are dead wrong, the CRA never forgets and that amount will have a large chunk of interest added to it.

it was pretty disgusting see the abuse of that CERB money that some were not entitled to get and I agree Norma it really does seem like they gave that money out on a whim

[the truth]

they sure did, another jt up

[normaM]

oh you can't escape CRA
I don't know why the entire program was such a shytshow. For some it was a time of free money it seems