Almost 90,000 seniors facing guaranteed income supplement cut for accepting pandemic benefits

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Parliamentary Budget Officer says scrapping clawback of GIS would cost $438 million

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cerb-cra-gis-payment-clawback-1.6237311

 

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Parliamentary Budget Officer says scrapping clawback of GIS would cost $438 million

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cerb-cra-gis-payment-clawback-1.6237311

What I am not able to understand is: why seniors were given pandemic benefit payments at all? They were retired, so, they had no loss of regular income. And if they were working, they were entitled to regular COVID benefits like everybody else who lost their jobs.