Similarly, various pre-payment verifications and post-payment reviews are being conducted by the CRA for the CEWS,вЂќ the agency said. вЂњThe CRA and Service Canada have records of all individuals whoвЂ™ve received payments for the CERB and CESB, and are verifying to make sure the payments were correctly allocated. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. At the time, CRA said its focus was on вЂњgetting crucial (CERB) payments to those who urgently need it now.вЂќ

In a statement to the National Post in mid-April, a CRA spokesperson dissuaded Canadians from snitching on potentially ineligible CERB recipients. The decision to go after cheaters marks a turning point in the governmentвЂ™s desire to take on fraud of COVID-19 emergency aid programs. PM shrugs off 'few' CERB fraudsters, saying Ottawa didn't want to 'paralyze' payments program with checksДЄn official at Service Canada told parliamentarians two weeks ago that the department had identified at least 200,000 double dippers who had applied and received twice the amount of CERB they were entitled to since the beginning of April.Number of CERB claimants topped number of jobless by a million in April, statistics show.Labour shortage amid Depression-level unemployment: Some businesses struggle to hire workers getting CERB.

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