The economic update is a departure from the current system, in which an individual files their taxes, and if their income was low enough to qualify for the program, they receive the full amount
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland defended her government’s changes to the Canada Workers Benefit after criticism from the Parliamentary Budget Officer that the new program design “does not make sense.”
“I also know that you’ll be hearing from witnesses about the Canada Workers Benefit,” she told MPs in an apparent reference to Mr. Giroux. “We’ve expanded the Canada Workers Benefit to reach up to 1.2 million additional hard-working low- and modest-income Canadians. This was an intentional policy choice, and it means CWB will top up the income of up to 4.2 million of the lowest-paid Canadians.”
Mr. Giroux told The Globe and Mail at the time that providing advance payments regardless of an individual’s income “does not make sense” because it sends money to people who are not targeted by the very design of the program. Finance Department associate deputy minister Nick Leswick told MPs earlier this month that the new approach represented “a fundamental change in the program design.”
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