{"id":777388,"date":"2026-07-03T09:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T09:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/777388\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T09:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T09:53:10","slug":"quarterly-payments-of-ottawas-boosted-grocery-and-essentials-benefit-start-today-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/777388\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarterly payments of Ottawa\u2019s boosted grocery and essentials benefit start today | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783072390_125_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Mark Carney tours a FreshCo grocery store in Brampton, Ont., Friday, June 5, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Chris Young<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 3, 2026 | 1:00 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Eligible Canadians will find a bit more cash in their bank accounts starting today as quarterly payments begin for the federal Liberals\u2019 boosted affordability benefit.<\/p>\n<p>The Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit is paid out to lower-income households every three months and was previously called the GST\/HST credit.<\/p>\n<p>Eligible households got a one-time payment worth 50 per cent of the benefit\u2019s annual value in early June.<\/p>\n<p>The quarterly payments are also getting a 25 per cent boost for the next five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Mark Carney tours a FreshCo grocery store in Brampton, Ont., Friday, June 5, 2026. THE CANADIAN&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,20739,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-777388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-ottawa","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777388","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=777388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}