{"id":717927,"date":"2026-06-06T00:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T00:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/717927\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T00:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T00:34:10","slug":"liberals-grocery-benefit-payments-start-for-eligible-canadians-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/717927\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals&#8217; grocery benefit payments start for eligible Canadians today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the federal Liberals&#8217; flagship affordability measures will land in the bank accounts of eligible Canadians starting today<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 One of the federal Liberals&#8217; flagship affordability measures will land in the bank accounts of eligible Canadians starting today.<\/p>\n<p>First announced by Prime Minister Mark Carney in January, top-up payments for the Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit will start going out today.<\/p>\n<p>The program previously was called the GST\/HST credit and is usually paid out on a quarterly basis to lower-income households to help them keep pace with the rising cost of living.<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 12 million Canadians are eligible for the one-time benefit and amounts vary based on the size of the household, with a single adult with no children getting up to $267 and a couple with two kids receiving a maximum of $533.<\/p>\n<p>The one-time top-up payment is worth 50 per cent of the annual benefit and regular quarterly payouts will also rise by 25 per cent for the next five years, starting in July.<\/p>\n<p>Canadians who meet the income threshold based on their 2024 tax returns will receive the benefit automatically by direct deposit or by mail.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 5, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Craig Lord, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the federal Liberals&#8217; flagship affordability measures will land in the bank accounts of eligible Canadians starting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,230086,295,66],"class_list":["post-717927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-groceries-and-essentials-benefit","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717927","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=717927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}