Thousands of families on track to miss out on planned bump to child benefit

Thousands of families on track to miss out on planned bump to child benefit

Minister of Families, Children and Social Development Jean-Yves Duclos rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill on Thursday, May 31, 2018. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Patrick Doyle) OTTAWA — A planned increase in the value of the Canada Child Benefit will miss just over one-fifth of Indigenous families living on reserves, part of the five per cent of families nationwide who don’t receive the monthly payments.

Federal officials plan to visit more than 500 rural and remote Indigenous communities over the next 11 months to get more people to take advantage of the benefit by simply […]

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