{"id":672727,"date":"2026-07-04T02:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T02:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/672727\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T02:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T02:51:16","slug":"quarterly-payments-of-boosted-grocery-and-essentials-benefit-start-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/672727\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarterly payments of boosted grocery and essentials benefit start today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eligible Canadians will find a bit more cash in their\u00a0bank\u00a0accounts 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% of the benefit\u2019s annual value in early June.<\/p>\n<p>The quarterly payments are also getting a 25% 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 martial 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eligible Canadians will find a bit more cash in their\u00a0bank\u00a0accounts starting today as quarterly payments begin for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,3363,1294,27529,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-672727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-cost-of-living","tag-economy","tag-tax-credits","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}