{"id":18694,"date":"2020-06-16T15:30:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T19:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/feds-extending-cerb-by-eight-weeks-147124"},"modified":"2020-06-16T15:30:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T19:30:02","slug":"feds-extending-cerb-by-eight-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2020\/06\/16\/feds-extending-cerb-by-eight-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds extending CERB by eight weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"316\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ParliamentHill-Ottawa-Feds.png\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt title=\"Feds extending CERB by eight weeks\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;June 16, 2020 <\/p>\n<p>The federal government&nbsp;is extending&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/department-finance\/economic-response-plan.html\">Canada Emergency Response Benefit<\/a> for an additional eight weeks to support Canadians who haven\u2019t been able to find employment as provinces start to reopen their economies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reality is that even as we start to reopen, a lot of people still need this support to pay their bills while they look for work,\u201d said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during his daily press briefing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/employers-cant-use-sub-plans-to-top-up-employees-laid-off-due-to-pandemic-146338\">Employers can\u2019t use SUB plans to top up employees laid off due to pandemic<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The $2,000 monthly benefit was intended to be available for&nbsp;16 weeks starting in mid-March. Many Canadians who haven\u2019t been able to return to work would have reached the end of their eligibility&nbsp;period in early July.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone currently on the CERB \u2014 whether because they can\u2019t find a job or their employer or industry hasn\u2019t been able to reopen \u2014 will continue to receive&nbsp;it until the end of the summer.<\/p>\n<p>As of June 1, more than 8.4 million Canadians had applied for the CERB and the program had paid out more than $43.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/feds-extending-cerb-by-eight-weeks-147124\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff&nbsp;|&nbsp;June 16, 2020 The federal government&nbsp;is extending&nbsp;the&nbsp;Canada Emergency Response Benefit for an additional eight weeks to support Canadians who haven\u2019t been able to find employment as provinces start to reopen their economies. \u201cThe reality&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}