fraud in its billion-dollar COVID-19 personal income support programs, some Canadians say their benefit payments have been on hold for weeks due to delays in the government’s identity-check process.“I’m feeling extremely anxious, … like I don’t know how this is gonna go,” says Paul, a master’s student at the University of Ottawa, who says he hasn’t been able to collect his Canada Emergency Student Benefit (CESB) since mid-June.
CERB poses back-to-work dilemma — ‘We’re being incentivized to make just under $1,000’ When Paul — whose real name Global News has agreed not to use — logged online to re-apply for the CESB, a bright blue banner on the dashboard of his Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) account told him to call a validation and identity.