Legal Action Coming to Recover COVID Benefit Overpayments: CRA

The Canada Revenue Agency sign outside the National Headquarters at the Connaught Building in Ottawa is seen on March 1, 2021. The Canadian Press/Justin Tang

The Canada Revenue Agency is ramping up efforts to recover overpayments of pandemic-related benefits.

Starting in July, the agency said on June 27 it will begin issuing legal warnings and could start to take steps to recover overpayments of all COVID-19 programs such as the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), the Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB) and the Canada Worker Lockdown Benefit.