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Quarterly payments of Ottawa’s boosted grocery and essentials benefit start today
Eligible households will get a 25% boost for five years after a one-time June advance, with annual payments ranging from a few hundred dollars to more than $1,000.
- On Friday, OTTAWA began distributing quarterly payments for the Canada Grocery Benefit, providing increased financial support to Eligible Canadians starting today.
- Prime Minister Mark Carney proposed the affordability measure in January to help Canadians cope with economic uncertainty and rising essentials costs.
- Replacing the GST and HST credit, the benefit features a 25 per cent boost scheduled for the next five years.
- Annual benefit amounts range from a few hundred dollars to more than a thousand dollars, depending on marital status and number of children.
- Before quarterly payments began, Eligible households received a one-time payment in early June worth 50 per cent of the annual benefit value.
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More than 12 million Canadians are expected to receive the Canadian Grocery and Essential Needs Allowance for the first time on Friday.
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Set up in response to the cost of living, it will be paid every three months to low-income households.
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It was the beginning of Friday's quarterly payments of the Carney government's allocation to deal with the rising cost of living.
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