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The Effect of Differences in Treatment of the Canada Emergency Response Benefit across Provincial and Territorial Income Assistance Programs

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  • Gillian Petit
  • Lindsay M. Tedds

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The Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) is a temporary cash transfer program for workers who have reduced earnings due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some workers receiving the CERB also receive provincial or territorial income assistance. A lack of clear objectives and definitions related to the CERB has led to the CERB being treated very differently by provincial and territorial income assistance (IA) programs. We look at how these different treatments of CERB under provincial income assistance programs affect IA clients across jurisdictions. We consider arguments for why the CERB should have been fully exempted from IA benefits.

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  • Gillian Petit & Lindsay M. Tedds, 2020. "The Effect of Differences in Treatment of the Canada Emergency Response Benefit across Provincial and Territorial Income Assistance Programs," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 46(S1), pages 29-43, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpp:issued:v:46:y:2020:i:s1:p:s29-s43
    DOI: 10.3138/cpp.2020-054
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    Cited by:

    1. Jennifer, Robson & Lindsay M., Tedds, 2023. "The Canada Disability Benefit: Battling Abelism in Design and Implementation," MPRA Paper 116191, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Petit, Gillian & Tedds, Lindsay M., 2021. "Interactions Between Federal and Provincial Cash Transfer Programs: The Effect of the Canada Emergency Response Benefit on Provincial Income Assistance Eligibility and Benefits," MPRA Paper 107895, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Yahong Zhang, 2022. "Unemployment Benefits and Wage Subsidies -- Effects of Labour Market Policies during a Pandemic," Working Papers 2203, University of Windsor, Department of Economics, revised Sep 2022.
    4. Vikkram Singh & Joshua Chobotaru, 2022. "Digital Divide: Barriers to Accessing Online Government Services in Canada," Administrative Sciences, MDPI, vol. 12(3), pages 1-12, September.

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