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Finance committee In response to the question about whether the Canada recovery benefit or other COVID benefits can have an impact on the amount that a recipient would ultimately receive for the Canada child benefit, the answer is, yes, they could have an impact. It's calculated based on adjusted
March 30th, 2023Committee meeting
Gillian Pranke
Public Accounts committee Mr. Chair, in normal systems, it's standard practice that there's an opportunity to apply refunds against amounts outstanding in the same revenue line. With the COVID benefits, as the commissioner stated, in October 2022 we had the ability to apply T1 refunds, individual refunds,
February 2nd, 2023Committee meeting
Gillian Pranke
Public Accounts committee Thank you, Mr. Chair. Commissioner Hamilton is absolutely correct in that it's very challenging to identify, with any degree of certainty, how many individuals are not filing, but I'd just like to highlight two things that we've been doing. For over five years now, for a numbe
October 25th, 2022Committee meeting
Gillian Pranke
Public Accounts committee Mr. Chair, we've been conducting this study and we're in the process of conducting it a second time with Statistics Canada, based on the 2001 census. The benefit outreach program that I referred to has been going on for five years. We've issued over 1.3 million letters to citizen
October 25th, 2022Committee meeting
Gillian Pranke
Health committee Mr. Chair, I'm happy to respond to questions specifically regarding validation, but I have nothing further to add based on the response from my colleague from CMHC.
October 24th, 2022Committee meeting
Gillian Pranke
Health committee Thank you, Mr. Chair. For the purposes of the act, adjusted income has the same meaning as in section 122.6 of the Income Tax Act. It refers to the total of all amounts of income received for the year for the individual or the person who was the individual's cohabiting spouse or
October 24th, 2022Committee meeting
Gillian Pranke
Health committee Mr. Chair, if I may, for the vast majority of citizens, the adjusted family net income represents line 23600 of the tax return. It's essentially family net income minus any universal child care benefit—the UCCB—and registered disability savings plan—the RDSP—income received, plus
October 24th, 2022Committee meeting
Gillian Pranke
Health committee Mr. Chair, it's a definition that's used in the Income Tax Act. As the Canada dental benefit is being pursued and it's linked to the Income Tax Act, the same definition applies.
October 24th, 2022Committee meeting
Gillian Pranke