{"id":718903,"date":"2026-06-06T11:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T11:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/718903\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T11:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T11:38:14","slug":"12m-canadians-to-get-one-time-grocery-and-essentials-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/718903\/","title":{"rendered":"12M Canadians to get one-time Grocery and Essentials Benefit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 12 million Canadians can expect to receive a one-time perk through the Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit (CGEB) starting Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Canadians will get a one-time benefit cash boost worth 50 per cent of the annual benefit.<\/p>\n<p>This supports people who qualified for the January GST\/HST credit, providing extra help before the CGEB launches in July.<\/p>\n<p>The government says this translates into as much as $267 for single adults with no children and a maximum of $533 for a couple with two children.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Mark Carney visited a Brampton grocery store on Friday, marking the first payment date of this new benefit.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chch.com\/chch-news\/prime-minister-mark-carney-announces-new-ai-for-all-strategy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener nofollow\">Prime Minister Mark Carney announces new \u2018AI for All\u2019 strategy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Carney says the benefit\u2019s intent is to help lower-income households keep up with the rising cost of living.<\/p>\n<p>In most cases, individuals will not need to apply for the CGEB. Only new residents of Canada may need to apply using Form RC151.<\/p>\n<p>The benefit amount will follow the same calculation rules as the GST\/HST credit, with payments from July 2026 to June 2027 determined by information from the 2025 tax return.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in July, the regular quarterly payouts will also rise by 25 per cent for the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chch.com\/chch-news\/carneys-new-gst-rebate-receives-royal-assent-promising-top-up-this-spring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener nofollow\">Carney\u2019s new GST rebate receives royal assent, promising top-up this spring<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With Files From The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About 12 million Canadians can expect to receive a one-time perk through the Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-718903","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\/718903","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=718903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}