About 240,000 low-income Canadians eligible for millions of dollars in federal support payments aren't getting the cash, partly because the Canada Revenue Agency paperwork is too complicated. Jennifer Robson, an assistant professor at Carleton University, says CRA needs to do more to connect the eligible working poor with federal benefits. An estimated 1.4 million working Canadians get the WITB each year, at a cost to the treasury of $1.2 billion. Advocates say the CRA, which is responsible for targeting the benefit, is not doing enough to get the cash to the working poor. Referring to CRA's new mandate to ease the application process, Bloch said: "I haven't seen a huge improvement."

Source: CBC News November 29, 2017 09:56 UTC