Canadian Emergency Response Benefit

The Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) is an EI alternative for those who are no longer working after March 15th due to the COVID virus. It provides successful applicants $500 per week for up to 16 weeks. There have been a high volume of applications reported & some reports of people waiting weeks to get the benefit. Apply as soon as you know it is needed and have patience with the system in these challenging times.

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Canada Emergency Business Account ($40,000 loan, up to $10,000 forgivable)

The Canada Emergency Business Account was announced by the Government of Canada to support small and medium sized businesses in these challenging times. It is a simple application process and only takes about 5-10 minutes once you have all the required information together.

Eligibility for the program can be found on your Bank’s website (links to common banks available at the bottom of this article). At the time of this article the government announced they were widening the eligibility but ...

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