Trudeau's child benefit could cheat millions of families
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David Akin, Parliamentary Bureau Chief First posted: Thursday, June 30, 2016 02:49 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, June 30, 2016 06:34 PM EDT
OTTAWA - Millions of Canadian families who are having a tougher time this year than last could be cheated out of hundreds of dollars a month in new child benefit money. That's even as millions of other families are about to be overpaid by the federal government.
The mismatch between income and the brand new Canada Child Benefit -- which takes effect July 1 -- is one of the new plan's biggest defects.
The government has boasted its new Canada Child Benefit (CCB) plan is richer than what it replaces: the Stephen Harper government's Universal Child Care Benefit (UCCB) and a suite of other tax credits and benefits to parents.
But what the government doesn't mention is that all things are not equal -- not by a long shot -- for nearly half of Canada's 12 million households with children.
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