The Canada Revenue Agency will be issuing the long-promised 'grocery rebate' payments to eligible Canadians on July 5. The food-inflation focused affordability measure is set to roll out to approximately 11 million low- and modest-income Canadians. Here's how much money those eligible can expect to receive.

(Rachel Aiello/CTV News)

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
    8·
    1 year ago

    Why are the payments to single people the same as the payments for married couples? Isn’t it based on how many people have to eat in the household?

      • Stochastic@lemmy.ca
        8·
        1 year ago

        Only the no-children amounts differ.

        For example, if you are single you could receive a maximum payment of:

        • $234 if you have no children
        • $387 if you have one child
        • $467 if you have two children
        • $548 if you have three children
        • $628 if you have four children

        And, if you are married or have a common-law partner, you could receive up to:

        • $306 if you have no children
        • $387 if you have one child
        • $467 if you have two children
        • $548 if you have three children
        • $628 if you have four children
          • jadero@lemmy.ca
            3·
            1 year ago

            Maybe, but I don’t think so. I think it’s being done as an adjustment to the GST rebate and that goes to only one member of the couple.

            • kakes@sh.itjust.works
              4·
              1 year ago

              I don’t have children, and my spouse only eats about 1/6 of our food (crumbs, essentially), so it makes perfect sense for the couples rebate to be only that small fraction more than a single person’s, rather than being 2x.

              • jadero@lemmy.ca
                2·
                1 year ago

                I agree completely! I think the system sucks, but that’s how it currently operates. And always will unless we’re going to hit the streets in mass rallies and protests.

    • fresh@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m not sure, but I can think of two reasons for this:

      1. Being a single parent is more expensive than being a couple. Because you can’t share costs with another person, a greater proportion of your income goes to required expenses like food, housing, and utilities.

      2. Along those lines, food is cheaper per person the more people you buy for. Buying in bulk is a huge savings. This is presumably why they give you more money for the first child than for each subsequent child.