Canada Emergency Response Benefit or its successor, the Canada Recovery Benefit, last year. Thousands of low-income seniors press Ottawa to restore cut-off GIS cheques Documents show low-income families were expected to see the sharpest drops in support through the Canada Child Benefit, and federal officials say about 83,000 low-income seniors have lost out on the guaranteed income supplement.The documents obtained by The Canadian Press under the access to information law provide a window into the early warnings around how the financial help offered by the pandemic recovery benefits last year now claws back payments relied on by millions of Canadian households.The reason is because the CERB and a trio of other government recovery benefits.