Some parents who have been receiving the Canada Child Benefit (CCB) say they were taken aback this week when they didn’t get their normal payments.
Beginning this month, Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) began recovering any CCB overpayments it made during the COVID-19 pandemic which in some cases it didn’t collect between May 2020 and this month.
“I woke up and checked my account like most parents do on the 20th, and I had zero. It’s a huge ding to us,” said Jodi Waite, 43, of London, Ont.
Waite and her partner have six children, three of whom qualify for the CCB.
The CCB is a tax-free monthly
