EXPLAINER: Grocery Rebate Rollout: Who Is Eligible and How Will It Be Paid?

EXPLAINER: Grocery Rebate Rollout: Who Is Eligible and How Will It Be Paid?
People shop at a grocery store in Montreal on Nov. 16, 2022. The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes
Matthew Horwood
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With food inflation eating into the wallets of Canadians, the federal government has announced that so-called grocery rebate payments will go out on July 5.

The announcement came following the passage of Bill C-46, the Cost of Living Act, by the Senate on May 11. The Liberal government claims the rebate will deliver “targetted” inflation relief to millions of low and middle-income Canadians that have been hit the hardest by rising food prices.