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Affordability & Childcare

Canada Workers Benefit platforms

Here's what the 2021 Canadian election parties are promising.

Liberal
  • Expand the Canada Workers Benefit to support ~1M additional Canadians in low-wage jobs.
  • Automatically enrol qualified Canadians in the CWB.
  • Ensure secondary earners can exclude up to $14,000 of their working income when income-testing for CWB.

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Continue to expand the Canada Workers Benefit to support about 1 million additional Canadians in low-wage jobs, helping them return to work and increasing benefits for Canada’s most vulnerable, who will be eligible for up to $1,400 a year.

Ensure that Canadians who qualify are automatically enrolled, and that the benefit is delivered on a quarterly basis.

Continue to ensure that secondary earners—mostly women—can exclude up to $14,000 of their working income when income-testing the Canada Workers Benefit, so that families can receive up to $2,400.

— Forward. For Everyone., retrieved 2021-09-02

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Conservative
  • Double the Canada Workers Benefit to a maximum of $2,800 for individuals or $5,000 for families, and pay it as a quarterly direct deposit rather than a tax refund.
  • Double the disability supplement to $1,500.
We don't have any Bloc policies on Canada Workers Benefit.
We don't have any NDP policies on Canada Workers Benefit.
We don't have any Green policies on Canada Workers Benefit.

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