Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm going to need a bit more detail on the Member's comments. I know he had a statement. He was throwing around some acronyms, throwing around a bunch of numbers. So I can say that the CERB program, that was exempted from the calculations for income assistance. So there were people who claimed that who are on income assistance, and I understand that the federal government has been clawing some of those payments back or requiring repayment of some of those payments if the individuals weren't eligible. The CRB program, which came after the CERB program, was not exempted and so that was counted against people's income assistance. And so if they did not claim that, then that would have been counted against their income assistance and recovered. I can't speak to some of the other issues that the Member is mentioning. But as far as I know, we don't do debt collection on behalf of the federal government. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
R.J. Simpson on Question 1620-19(2): Exemption of Federal Income Sources from Income Assistance benefits
In the Legislative Assembly on October 5th, 2023. See this statement in context.
Question 1620-19(2): Exemption of Federal Income Sources from Income Assistance benefits
Oral Questions
October 5th, 2023
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