{"id":612095,"date":"2026-04-18T09:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T09:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/612095\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T09:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T09:18:09","slug":"eligible-canadians-to-get-groceries-and-essentials-benefit-on-june-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/612095\/","title":{"rendered":"Eligible Canadians to get Groceries and Essentials Benefit on June 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>Announced in January, Canadians can expect at least a modicum of relief in their bank accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>On June 5, Canadians can expect to receive the Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit (CGEB) \u2013 essentially a rebrand of the usual GST\/HST credit \u2013 meant to provide support for low and middle-income Canadians dealing with the high cost of living.<\/p>\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>A single person who earns $25,000 in net income will get $267 on June 5, along with a longer-term increase of $136 for the 2026-27 benefit year.<\/p>\n<p>The one-time and quarterly payments will benefit upwards of 12 million recipients, the government said.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED VIDEO<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Loading...\" height=\"64\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dcs-static.gprod.postmedia.digital\/21.0.2\/websites\/images\/common\/icon-spinner-animated.svg\" width=\"64\"\/><\/p>\n<p>We apologize, but this video has failed to load.<\/p>\n<p>Play Video<\/p>\n<p>The Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit will replace the GST\/HST credit as of this July.<\/p>\n<p>With all benefits included and including the June 5 top-up, a family of four is entitled to receive up to $1,890 in total benefits in 2026, while a single individual could see payouts of up to $950 by the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Eligibility is determined by the CRA based on your declared income on your tax return.<\/p>\n<p>Share this article in your social network<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Article content Announced in January, Canadians can expect at least a modicum of relief in their bank accounts.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-612095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}