Seniors cut off from income supplement after receiving emergency benefits: In a letter sent to three Liberal cabinet ministers, NDP MP Daniel
Blaikie said many seniors who received the CERB and Canada Recovery
Benefit either do not qualify for the guaranteed income supplement or
face drastic deductions to it.

“They’re just not going to have enough income at the end of the month
in order to pay their bills. And what we feared would happen last year
will end up happening this year,” Blaikie said in an interview.

Seniors cut off from income supplement after receiving emergency benefits: In a letter sent to three Liberal cabinet ministers, NDP MP Daniel
Blaikie said many seniors who received the CERB and Canada Recovery
Benefit either do not qualify for the guaranteed income supplement or
face drastic deductions to it.
“They’re just not going to have enough income at the end of the month
in order to pay their bills. And what we feared would happen last year
will end up happening this year,” Blaikie said in an interview.Read More