Toronto 
The federal government today announced the doubling of goods and services tax credit for six months for low-income families.
GST credit which depends on the annual income and is indexed to inflation is paid quarterly in January, April, July, and October, with the benefit year beginning in July.
Canadians with a family net income of less than $39,826 in 2021 will receive the full Credit amount. The credit gradually reduces as income increases and is fully phased out at about $49,166 for a single person without children, and at about $58,506 for a couple with two children.
The GST credit announced for this benefit year (July 2022to June 2023) is:
- $467 for singles without children;
- $612 for married or common-law partners;
- $612 for single parents; plus
- $161 for each child under the age of 19.
As Canada is experiencing a sharp rise in inflation in 2022, the federal government is planning to double the GST credit for six months.
This means that those who are currently receiving GST credit and those who have filed 2021 taxes will receive double the amount they receive for six months (or a full year benefit in six months) as a one-time, lump-sum payment before the end of the year.
These are examples given in the news release:
- A single mother with one child and $30,000 in net income will receive $386.50 for the July through December 2022 period, and another $386.50 for the January through June 2023 period under the current GST Credit. With the temporary doubling of the GST Credit amounts for six months, she would receive an additional $386.50. In total, she would be receiving about $1,160 this benefit year through the GST Credit.
- A single senior with $20,000 in net income will be receiving $233.50 for the July through December 2022 period and another $233.50 for the January through June 2023 period under the current GST Credit. With the temporary doubling of the GST Credit amounts for six months, this senior would receive an additional $233.50. In total, he would be receiving about $701 this benefit year through the GST Credit.
- A couple with two children and $35,000 in net income will be receiving $467 for the July through December 2022 period and another $467 for the January through June 2023 period under the current GST Credit. With the temporary doubling of the GST Credit amounts for six months, this family would receive an additional $467. In total, they would be receiving about $1,401 this benefit year through the GST Credit.
GST recipients will receive the additional payments automatically and need not apply.
The government says this will deliver $2.5 billion to about 11 million individuals and families in additional support to current GST Credit recipients pending Parliamentary approval and Royal Assent of enabling legislation.
Update: Eligible Canadians will receive their payments in November.
The federal government, today, also announced the free initial step in the free national dental care program for low-income Canadians.
I gave quite an accurate detailed account of todays state of poverty for single parents, their children, disabled, seniors. Strangely this site wouldn’t post my ‘Comments’. This Government is more dangerous then I imagined.
Yes I to am a senior who worked his whole life and payed taxes . only to get screwed over .I have never got a gst check. If I come back In another life I will never make the mistake of working for a living again.I will set on my ass and get everything
It says 1 time payment for gst for next six months. If federal government says 1 time top up .that means u will only get what u usually get.so I get 213$ that means I get 1 time top up of 213$ wow and that suppose to be helping .I thought we were gonna get more on our gst for January and April of 2023.
20 000 for seniors net income is poverty and seniors who make a little over 20,000 don’t get the double gst rebate.Makes me sick.Instead of working all these years and paying taxes i should of went on welfare I’d been much better off.Today i have nothing no dental nothing except whatever perscriptions the government will allow and yes i raised kids and worked almost 40 years at one job cleaning.I am under 75 so i didn’t get that raise im just abit over 20,000 so there goes the double gst.Why eveñ work doesn’t pay.Sure didn’t me.This sucks.
Being a senior used to mean joy now we are pushed to the curve like garbage and the govt vulcures are waiting for us to dye so they can be debt free
The government has promised to help low income people and we have to wait until the end of the year for help….we are in dire need now…why are people being made to wait. This unnecessary stress in not necessary.
i have lost faith in all goverments they unetcical i am old time right wing liberal not justin liberal what he did was wrong with the ndp pcs when to far right with scheer again brad wall should be in jail for helping with the freedom convoy bull shit they should all be charge with treason SIMPLE the ndp also has lost their way singh should grow a pair and step down jack would be rolling over in his grave i HAVE NO FAITH IN GOVERMENTS
Things are getting out of hand in this country. The poor get poorer while the others continue to dominate and take the benefits that were organized by those feeling the squeeze and sitting at home or in a shelter, penniless. We worked to make this country what it is today. Not the youths, not the childbearing mothers and fathers sitting at home, not the welfare recipients who received a big boost just recently, it’s the men and women who worked, volunteered and served this nation in making it one of the top countries in this universe. We are proud to be Canadians but not proud of this Government.
So the bill has not been past yet?? So when it is will seniors making under $20,000 will have the amount deposit into their accounts?
I am a senior and did not receive the double GST amount?
What month are we to receive this?
I make less than 39,000?
The credit will be given only after bill approval in parliament and royal assent. As per the news release, by end of this year.
We are seniors, we did not receive the double amount, we make less than 39,000 a year? When should we be receiving this? What month?
I am a senior living on 1280.00 a month..I did not get the double GST..only received 116.00…how come ???…can hardly afford my couple of bills and food…it was just another kick in the ass to announce some relief for Canadians struggling to make ends meet.
Yes another Trudeau look good scheme for seniors and low income double the GST in October well many were waiting and still are where is is pr when will it be in our account I’m sure you could put it on the News
Yea I’m a single male in my mid 30s on disability who makes less than 30k a year and I never got double GST credit. I bet people in Ontario and Quebec got it. Trudeau just wants to buy votes and I’m an Albertan. Trudeau don’t care about Alberta. It’s Ontario and Quebec that have all the voting power so I bet they got it.
The credit will be given only after bill approval in parliament and royal assent. As per the news release, by end of this year.
I did not get double the GST amount and I definitely fall in the single, childless, below $39,000 range so yes the Government is lying yet again.
When Trudeau gave the $500 to seniors over 75 I asked why ALL Seniors were not getting it. Why the discrimination?
Answer I got was it’s harder to get work to subsidize your income if you are over 75. Also over 75s are more likely to get sick and need a retirement home. Oh ya. Government is going to get their money back.
A senior is a senior….cost of food, gas, housing does not change once you get to 75. Cost of food, gas, housing has dramatically increased but our pensions only go up by pennies. Disgusting government. We need a change, someone who cares about actual Canadians that have worked all their lives. Not just the ones that will vote Trudeau in yet again. This country was in the black until his father became PM we have been getting deeper in debt ever since.
Well I’m a single person on disability and I did NOT recieve the double payment. Rent is going to increase 2,8% in the new year ..how bout not allowing the landlord’s to increase rent yearly. This is such crap no wonder ppl hoard into houses or apartments so they can afford to live 😕
So I guess the GST didn’t double because I only got the same amount as before $116
That not fair tell everyone that it’s going to double and it didn’t at lease for me it didn’t
I didn’t get any gst increase they lied again that’s all they do is raise prices lie about everything and screw over us ppl that are so low income we can’t even eat I get $733 a month on welfare cuz I can’t work cuz I’m taking care of both my mom and step dad and it’s just impossible to live anymore and then they say we’re getting gst doubled and yet nothing happened
Can’t say I didn’t see it coming, did anyone else not get the “doubled” payment this morning? Or does the government just continue to lie to us low income single families..
The credit will be given only after bill approval in parliament and royal assent. As per the news release, by end of this year.
They sure put it in complicated terms…may as well say take what you get and shut up.
‘A sickly senior’
I am a senior I make 32000.00 a yr because I get all8money;I pay 1361.00 for rent and cable at a senior independent living I still only just make it grocery’s are so expensive I worked all my life for 14 yrs to 63 seniors do not get anything
I did not run the government this way .my son should know better.ps jean Chretien is really the pm
Who gives a rats ass. All these foreigners will get more than Canadians themselves. That rodent up there in Ottawa will take care of immergrints first ffs. Bloody ridiculous.
Interesting how no one has bothered to tell Canada Revenue about this, because their website does not show the impending amount to be paid on October 5th to be doubled, but rather, just increased about 10%.
People should be asking whether this is just more balloon juice from Trudeau, and if not, why doesn’t the CRA — the government agency that actually pays out the GST Refunds — know about it?
What I understood the payment for july2023 and Oct 2023 gst cheque will be doubled
And if your rent is more then 30% of your income then you will qualify for the 500 dollars one time payment to help pay rent.
When is this being paid out october november or december like i need to know
The rent assistance is only for assisted housing or subsidized not every person paying rent lol you need to look this on the CRA site and it’s not been approved yet anyways
Don’t be confused. The gst doubling is for july and October only. For example single seniors who now get 116. Per quarter ( 232 for tge 6 month period ) will receive 232 dollars xtra. The 500 rent eligibility is worse. Income 20 thousand or less rent recipients and provide landlord info. So for those if any that pay for example the granny suite at a siblings home and they don’t claim rental income you do not get it. Another rip off for seniors. The dental fir kids under 12 well that’s just absurd
Thank you for the double GST it helps us low income ODSP recipients as we barely got a raise from Mr.Ford I only received a $34.00 raise which really won’t help much with groceries going up all the time which is really depressing 😐
Clearly many people didn’t actually bother to read before commenting
Singles without children were the first demographic mentioned. Seniors were the last. It explains how the benefit will be paid before the end of the year; it does not say the increase showed up in July 🙄
What about us working poor ? I work my ass off , pay my taxes and get nothing . There’s people who don’t work and get the increases . These people are not working by choice – absolutely ridiculous
and when is the first get benefits released regarding these changes?
What about eligible single adults, nothing is mentioned here
I think this is bunk. I am a senior on GIS and I certainly didn’t get an increase on my GST as of July!
I think it’s ridiculous that you use a single mother rather than a single parent. I’ve been the sole provider and care taker of my child for her entire life to date she’s 11 now. No child support, no breaks, no shared custody. Women are not the only ones raising their children eh.
What about just couples without children how much will they get?
What about seniors?