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Seniors cut off from income supports after receiving Canada’s pandemic benefits

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British Columbia‘s Cowichan Valley drew on emergency benefits last year after the COVID-19 pandemic wiped out his part-time work as a musician.Now the $2,000 a month in Canada Emergency Response Benefit he received through much of 2020 has rendered him ineligible for the income supplement typically available to low-income seniors.“This comes as a complete shock to me,” said Sherlock, who worked on contract as a tree planter for two decades and has no company pension.“No one … warned me that I would be losing my guaranteed income supplement because of this.

There was nothing about having your pension cut in half for the next two years.”Sherlock is not the only one blindsided.New Democrats say they’ve have been flooded with calls from.

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