April 10, 2020
By Beatrice Britneff
Any person (click here) who applies for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) (click here) will be automatically approved for COVID-19 financial relief, regardless of whether they qualify for the funding or not, the federal employment minister confirmed on Friday.
As first reported by the Toronto Star, the government isn’t asking people to provide documents proving their income as part of the claims process but it will review the applications’ veracity down the road, Carla Qualtrough said during a daily news conference with federal officials.
“We will, whether it be in the upcoming weeks or at tax time next year, reconcile accounts and make sure people didn’t game the system,” Qualtrough said....
The Canadian government does not pass judgment on it's citizens in need due to COVID-19. Canada TRUSTS it's citizens to make an honest claim. Canada is not diverting monies to the financial sector with any of the funding specifically set aside for the citizens of Canada.
Who is eligible?
The benefit will be available to workers:
-Residing in Canada, who are at least 15 years old;
-Who have stopped working because of COVID-19 and have not voluntarily quit their job or are eligible for EI regular or sickness benefits;
-Who had income of at least $5,000 in 2019 or in the 12 months prior to the date of their application; and
-Who are or expect to be without employment or self-employment income for at least 14 consecutive days in the initial four-week period. For subsequent benefit periods, they expect to have no employment or self-employment income.
Changing the subject. This is a video by a nurse in Australia. He praises Tesla for it's ventilator design and makes helpful comments that he hopes Tesla will listen to which it can include in it's manufacture FREE OF CHARGE to hospitals. I really like the way he talks about lungs, lung processors and the application to a ventilator made primarily from car parts.
