Sign today CERB Amnesty Petition
January 17, 2023
We are asking for your support to sign and share the House of Commons E-Petition calling for an immediate stop of clawbacks to the Canada Child Benefit (CCB).
The petition closes on January 19, 2023, at 9:14 a.m. (EDT).
Although pandemic income supports have all ended, families continue to have their CCB payments confiscated along with other tax credits.
The CCB is Canada’s signature poverty reduction program, but a recent Parliamentary Budget Office report shows that approximately 791,000 families will have their payments reduced by an average $606 in the 2022/2023 benefit year as a result of having received pandemic benefits such as the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) or Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB). The report found that federal spending on the CCB will be $1.45 billion less because of these clawbacks over three years.
Those who are the hardest hit are mothers with multiple children who earn a moderate income, precisely the mothers who need it most. For example, a mother with 4 children who earned $33,000 last year, will have her income benefits reduced by more than $3,000 this year.
Join the call to end pandemic clawbacks to the CCB and to implement a full CERB Amnesty!
Sign the CERB Amnesty House of Commons petition by heading to: tinyurl.com/ccbclawbacks.
Press Release and News Coverage
Mothers with multiple children most affected by punitive CERB clawbacks
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Advocates press Ottawa to retract child benefit cutbacks
Mothers receiving Canada Child Benefit payments deserve CERB Amnesty