CERB fraud: More Canada Revenue Agency employees laid off

Nearly 300 Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) employees who improperly applied for and received the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) are no longer with the agency, according to the latest data from an internal investigation.

L’BOW launched an investigation last year to identify individuals within its organization who may have fraudulently received payments from the PCU while they were employed by the Agency. It identified 600 cases requiring further investigation.

L’BOW takes any form of wrongdoing very seriously and is firmly committed to protecting the integrity of Canada’s tax and benefit systemssupported theBOW in a statement sent to CBC.

There PCU provided financial support to people who lost employment or self-employment income during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As of June 17, 2024, 289 employees of theBOW who requested and received the PCU inappropriately are no longer employed by theBOWthe agency said. Updates on these dismissals have been published periodically by the federal agency.

Any person deemed inadmissible to the PCUincluding employees of theBOW who requested and received it inappropriately, will have to reimburse the amounts if they have not already done so.

L’BOW also said that 135 employees who were under investigation were cleared on August 23.

Given that theBOW employs people who have various employment profiles, such as temporary contracts and student contracts, some people were eligible for the PCUthe Agency said.

The union claims that theAgency income he’s going strong

The national president of the Tax Employees Union, Marc Brière, believes that theBOW adopted an approach authoritarian in some cases.

Some people have done something wrong, and they pay the price. Others, sometimes, have not done it, let’s say, with bad intentions.he confided.

L’BOW takes this issue very seriously. It is a sensitive issue, obviously, for the reputation of theBOWWhen she has doubts, she goes for it.lamented Marc Brière.

He explains that some of the layoffs were clear and difficult to oppose. However, other employees had mitigating factors and the Union filed grievances.

When the PCU was launched, at first it was very confusinghe confessed. It was put in place in three weeks, and some employees, some of our members, are no different than the rest of the population and didn’t know if they were eligible.

The union representative recalls that at that time, there were employees who had a second or third job and that, when they lost one, some believed that they were eligible because of a loss of income. In some cases, employees received incorrect information from the customer service department of theBOWaccording to Marc Brière.

The layoffs represent only a small fraction of the approximately 60,000 people who work for theBOWthe Agency said.

The actions of some should in no way undermine the honesty and integrity of the thousands of employees of theBOW who work every day in an exemplary manner to serve Canadians.

With information fromArthur White-Crummeyof CBC News