Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes. Typically, what we have been seeing over the last few years is around a 7 percent increase in expenditures in Income Assistance, which would be reflective of what you are seeing as far as increases in the budget for the year. Over the last year, with the exemption of the Canada Emergency Response Benefit, we exempted a lot of that, or we exempted that income as well as a number of other income sources. As a result, our expenditures definitely increased, so there was a significant increase, I believe to around 17 percent for the one year. That was between April and November. Since November, we have started to count the Canada Recovery Benefit, and we are starting decreased expenditures as a result of that. It is balancing itself out, but there are definitely increased expenditures. We are still completing financial reviews on files because we did payroll clients for seven months, so those financial reviews will tell the true story of how much CERB money was counted or was collected by clients and exempted, as well. Thank you.
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Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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