OTTAWA – The Canada Revenue Agency has fired 120 of its employees for illegally claiming the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) while working for ...
A person looks at a Canada Revenue Agency homepage in Montreal, Sunday, August 16, 2020.STORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOSOTTAWA – The Canada Revenue Agency has fired 120 of its employees for illegally claiming the Canada Emergency Response Benefit while working for the tax authority.
Launched within the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, CERB paid $2,000 per month to eligible recipients. One of the key eligibility requirements was that recipients had to have lost their primary job or income because of the pandemic, making employed individuals largely ineligible unless they made less than $1,000 monthly income when they applied.
“The CRA employs individuals with a variety of employment profiles such as temporary and student contracts; and, as such, individuals may have been eligible to receive the CERB at the time it was available,” reads the statement. Auditor General Karen Hogan also warned in a report in December that both departments needed to look into up to $27 billion in payments she flagged as suspicious across a dozen pandemic benefits, most notably the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy .
The CRA is not the only federal department that was tasked with doling out pandemic benefits that has since had to fire employees who unduly applied for CERB.
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