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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW IN MAKING THE TRANSITION FROM CERB TO EI OR TO CRB If you received the CERB through Service Canada After you receive your last CERB paym...ent, YOU MUST continue completing reports. In most cases, you do not need to apply for EI benefits. Service Canada will automatically review your file and your Record of Employment (ROE), then start a claim for EI regular benefits if you qualify. If you DO NOT qualify, Service Canada will be notifying you by mail. If you received CERB through the Canada Revenue Agency you might be eligible for one of the new recovery benefits. Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB) will provide eligible workers with $500 per week (taxable, tax deducted at source) for up to 26 weeks for those who have stopped working and are NOT eligible for EI, or had their employment/self-employment income reduced by at least 50% due to Covid-19. This benefit will be paid in two-week periods. You must be available and capable of working. There is also the Canada Recovery Caregiving Benefit and Canada Recovery Sickness Benefits available; for more details on these types of benefits and qualifying conditions, you can visit the www.canada.gc.ca for information on all these types of new Recovery benefits. Stay safe, my friends, Charlie

Zoom meeting access: Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81539053914 The UW says that this is only the first Tour and that they will be setting up others to highlight other agencies that they fund.

If this comes true, this could be very helpful to many. We should all watch and see what happens. "The federal government says it will soon introduce a free, automatic tax filing system for simple returns a policy change meant to provide government benefits to qualified people who don't collect them now because they skip filing their taxes. The promise a one-line commitment buried in the 6,783-word speech from the throne could help hundreds of thousands of low- and fi...xed-income Canadians access benefits that are only paid to people who file tax returns. By law, and in most cases, only people who owe taxes are required to file a return each year with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)."

Steps to Justice has updated information about the changes to Employment Insurance dealing with the number of qualifying insurable hours and the new minimum payment. These changes replace the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), which ends on October 3, 2020. Updates have also been made to the COVID-19 content. https://stepstojustice.ca//employmen/employment-insurance

New information about cellphones and responsibilities of providers.

The annual United Way of Northumberland campaign ramps up this week.

"Low income and racialized communities have been hit the hardest, but there is another group that feels abandoned and ignored people with disabilities. There are fears some with disabilities are considering assisted dying as a last resort"

Labour Day message from the President of the Canadian Labour Congress

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