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Why is there a lapse of $421.5 million for Employment and Social Development Canada for
the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024?
Why are
expenditures of $94.4 billion for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024 $6.2 billion higher than
expenditures of $88.2 billion for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2023?
What overpayments were established and
collected for the COVID-19 benefits, which include the Canada Emergency Response
Benefit (CERB), the Employment Insurance Emergency Response Benefit (EI-ERB)
and the Canada Recovery Benefits (CRB) for 2023-2024?
Striking employees of Canada Post do not have access to their usual health benefits while on strike.
Publication of the 2025 Canada Food Price Report
What is the Government’s response to the Office of the Auditor General’s Independent Auditor’s report titled Programs to Assist Seniors, which evaluates whether Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) has sufficiently supported older Canadians through federal programs, services, and initiatives?
Publication of Feed Ontario’s Hunger Report 2024.
An inventory of Canada Pension Plan Disability reassessment cases has increased over the last several years. Delayed reassessments can result in clients continuing to receive benefits to which they may no longer be entitled, leading to large overpayments for clients.
Why are Old Age Security (OAS) benefits not increasing in January 2025, in line with changes to the cost of living?
On November 28, 2024, Statistics Canada released a publication titled “Preliminary Market Basket Measure (MBM) poverty estimates in Canada: A new modelling approach”. The publication offers early poverty estimates based on preliminary tax slips, seven months ahead the official data.