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Prime Minister Mark Carney tours a FreshCo grocery store in Brampton, Ont., Friday, June 5, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Chris Young <\/p>\n
OTTAWA – One of the federal Liberals’ flagship affordability measures will start landing in the bank accounts of eligible Canadians today.<\/p>\n
First announced by Prime Minister Mark Carney in January, top-up payments for the Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit will start going out today.<\/p>\n
The program previously was called the GST\/HST credit and is usually paid out on a quarterly basis to lower-income households to help them keep pace with the rising cost of living.<\/p>\n
An estimated 12 million Canadians are eligible for the one-time benefit. Payments will vary based on the size of the household, with a single adult with no children getting up to $267 and a couple with two kids receiving a maximum of $533.<\/p>\n
The one-time top-up payment is worth 50 per cent of the annual benefit and regular quarterly payouts will also rise by 25 per cent for the next five years, starting in July.<\/p>\n
Canadians who meet the income threshold based on their 2024 tax returns will receive the benefit automatically by direct deposit or by mail.<\/p>\n
Carney said at a FreshCo grocery store in Brampton, Ont., on Friday that the money will reduce cost-of-living pressures and help families enjoy the summer.<\/p>\n
Finance Minister Fran\u00e7ois-Philippe Champagne said in a video posted on social media Friday that the benefit is a key affordability measure.<\/p>\n
“We’ve heard from many Canadians that obviously affordability is top of mind,” he said.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 5, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Mark Carney tours a FreshCo grocery store in Brampton, Ont., Friday, June 5, 2026. THE CANADIAN…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[2552,79,26025,2814,1739,26035,2594,26032,26033,179,18,846,26030,1740,5270,26027,26026,19,5782,1744,17401,3442,26023,8435,17,1082,26022,12983,5759,3393,26019,26045,26040,26044,26039,26042,26043,234,26041,3598,26038,26021,26020,26034,26028,26036,26018,26024,3444,992,26029,4678,26031,26037],"class_list":["post-521779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-analysis","tag-business","tag-charting","tag-charts","tag-commodities","tag-corn","tag-data","tag-e-mini-nasdaq","tag-e-mini-sampp","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-financial","tag-foreign-exchange-markets","tag-forex","tag-futures","tag-graph","tag-historical","tag-ie","tag-indicators","tag-indices","tag-intraday","tag-investing","tag-investment-timing","tag-investments","tag-ireland","tag-market","tag-market-timing","tag-money-management","tag-mutual-funds","tag-nasdaq","tag-novice-trader","tag-otc-bb","tag-penny-stock","tag-penny-stock-picks","tag-penny-stocks","tag-pennystock","tag-pennystocks","tag-personal-finance","tag-picks","tag-quotes","tag-real-time-quotes","tag-realtime-charts","tag-realtime-quotes","tag-sampp-500","tag-search","tag-soybeans","tag-stock-charting","tag-stock-market-screening","tag-stock-research","tag-stocks","tag-technical","tag-trading","tag-trading-tools","tag-wheat"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}