In our report on the COVID benefit programs, we identified that $4.6 billion had been paid to ineligible individuals, and that it should be followed up on. The $27.4 billion was potentially ineligible to both businesses and individuals. About $15 billion of that related to wage subsidies to businesses.
On the report that the Canada Revenue Agency recently released, following up on some of its postpayment work, as I mentioned previously, I really focused in on what was linked to our work. I felt it was potentially misleading for a reader. The Canada Revenue Agency commented that it followed up on 53% of the businesses that we had identified in our $15 billion of potentially ineligible payments, but the majority of those were not done through postpayment work.
My concern—