Finance committee  We reported to the committee earlier and I think we had found 26,000 cases of this nature. If we compare that to the nine million applicants, it is still a relatively low percentage, but we are dealing with those 26,000 cases.

Finance committee  Thank you. Mr. Chair, a lot of work has indeed been done to assist Canadians who have been victims of identity theft. People need only call us at the CRA so that we can start the process, validate their case, and make sure their file is updated at the agency. This way, we will

Public Accounts committee  We now have that information because we have the T4s for all the employees in Canada for that period of time, and we know for which businesses they were working. It's now possible for us to look at that information.

Public Accounts committee  If I may—

Public Accounts committee  At this time we've completed three hundred—

Public Accounts committee  We are working on doing about 875,000 reviews.

Public Accounts committee  I'm saying these ones we've issued are mostly for the people who received two payments in one period. We completed a lot of the work of reviewing whether people were eligible because of income.

Public Accounts committee  I can't tell you exactly how many more—

Public Accounts committee  —but I would like to say that—

Public Accounts committee  I can take this one. Yes, things are going well. We've set up teams to answer calls from people who received a letter telling them that they had a debt to pay. We can give them support and help them determine how much they can repay based on their own financial circumstances. Th

Public Accounts committee  We have had to deal with hundreds of thousands of identity theft cases over the years. We take the time to examine each one so that we can investigate. We introduced numerous measures to help these people, reassure them, and tell him there would be no repercussions from the iden

Public Accounts committee  Exactly. The agency worked very closely with ESDC. The risks that we were identifying by listening to leads, for example, that we would receive from external stakeholders, by looking at the business intelligence that we were able to acquire, that's how we developed those methods

Public Accounts committee  Progressively, we blocked up to 700,000 individual applicants.

Public Accounts committee  What we did there was because we had just received the income information from the previous year, 2019. What we decided to do was to block the applicants we were seeing were not eligible because they were not meeting the minimum income of $5,000, and we were asking them to contac

Public Accounts committee  At the time when the program was launched, the most recent information we had was for the 2018 year.