{"id":532847,"date":"2026-07-04T15:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T15:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/532847\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T15:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T15:15:12","slug":"quarterly-payments-of-ottawas-boosted-grocery-and-essentials-benefit-start-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/532847\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarterly payments of Ottawa&#8217;s boosted grocery and essentials benefit start today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eligible Canadians will find a bit more cash in their bank accounts starting today as quarterly payments begin for the federal Liberals&#8217; 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&#8217;s 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<p>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>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>Picture Courtesy: THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Chris Young<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eligible Canadians will find a bit more cash in their bank accounts starting today as quarterly payments begin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1902,1482,72,226634,226629,113,93,1424,426,2537,103,3211,61,226630,60,166,709,270,43,2096,2507,1650,226633,564,2208,226632,226631,112,33074,103357,80,12541,35157,2699],"class_list":["post-532847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-beauty","tag-bollywood","tag-business","tag-darpan","tag-darpan-magazine","tag-economy","tag-entertainment","tag-fashion","tag-food","tag-gallery","tag-health","tag-hollywood","tag-ie","tag-indo-canadian","tag-ireland","tag-lifestyle","tag-magazine","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-people","tag-photos","tag-politics","tag-punjabi","tag-reviews","tag-songs","tag-south-asian","tag-south-east-asian","tag-sports","tag-surrey","tag-teasers","tag-technology","tag-trailers","tag-vancouver","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}