A federal government department has fired 49 employees who received the Canada Emergency Response Benefit while they were employed.
Employment and Social Development Canada, which oversaw the distribution of the benefit—better known as CERB— conducted an internal investigation and found that some of its employees had claimed the benefit for themselves.
Crescenzi and other senior officials from ESDC and the Canada Revenue Agency were testifying at the public accounts committee after an auditor general's report on the billions of dollars in COVID-19 benefits the government doled out during the pandemic.at least $4.6 billion in overpaymentsCERB provided financial support to Canadians who had employment income of at least $5,000 in the 12 months prior to applying for it.
Crescenzi said the monies received by the 49 terminated employees have been classified as overpayments that must be repaid.
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