Thank you for the question.
I would say that, in anticipation of the emergency benefits being launched, we understood that fraudulent activities would be increasing, so we strengthened our anti-fraud controls and our measurements in regard to algorithms and other fraud-detection capabilities.
We prevented and issued stop payments for more than 30,000 cases, demonstrating about $42 million in savings. Some of the stop payments did not happen on a timely enough basis to be able to prevent money going out the door, but we prevented further money from going out the door. Because we saw that some of these fraudulent activities appeared to be potential fraud schemes—this is where you have the 13,000 cases that were referred to the RCMP for follow-up—that represents about $7.9 million.
We stay in constant contact with our colleagues during their official duties. We will be told when they are ready to tell us where they are at in their investigation process.