The Canada Emergency Response Benefit has helped people with low incomes live better during the COVID-19 pandemic and showed that a guaranteed basic income is achievable, says the manager of the Nourish Project in Peterborough.
The federal government announced Tuesday it will provide eight extra weeks of benefits for people whose jobs or earnings have vanished because of the pandemic, but only if they look for work and take jobs when it’s reasonable to do so.
CERB will continue to pay out $500 a week, but now for up to 24 weeks instead of 16 for people who lost their jobs […]
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