On Thursday, the head of Employment and Social Development Canada’s integrity services told a government committee that it had conducted internal investigations into some COVID-19 benefit applications, namely the $2,000-per-month CERB, and discovered that some of its own staff had applied and received the payment. The department charged with dolling out COVID-19 financial benefits fired 49 of its employees who received the Canada Emergency Response Benefit while they were still employed. Canada Revenue Agency, the other government organization that administered CERB, was asked if they too had discovered staff who had received the benefit. CRA commissioner Bob Hamilton did not have numbers on hand, but noted it was likely “not very many.”
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