{"id":778760,"date":"2026-07-04T00:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T00:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/778760\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T00:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T00:55:15","slug":"canadas-grocery-price-benefit-begins-july-3-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/778760\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s grocery-price benefit begins July 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"c-overline b-overline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bnnbloomberg.ca\/business\/economics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economics<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0July 03, 2026 at 9:51AM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0July 03, 2026 at 5:25AM EDT<\/p>\n<p>Kamil Karamali has details on the federal government\u2019s grocery-price benefit rolling out to around 12 million Canadians. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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 class=\"c-paragraph\">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 class=\"c-paragraph\">Eligible households got a one-time payment worth 50 per cent of the benefit\u2019s annual value in early June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The quarterly payments are also getting a 25 per cent boost for the next five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Annual amounts can range between a few hundred dollars to more than a thousand dollars per family, depending on marital status and the number of children in the household.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Prime Minister Mark Carney pitched the affordability measure in January as a way to help Canadians cope with economic uncertainty and the rising costs of essentials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 3, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Craig Lord, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economics Updated:\u00a0July 03, 2026 at 9:51AM EDT Published:\u00a0July 03, 2026 at 5:25AM EDT Kamil Karamali has details on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46,47,715],"class_list":["post-778760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-national","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778760","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=778760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}