Canada Child Benefit Payments

Find here everything you need to know about Canada Child Benefit payments and also get ready to receive your money or report changes.

CCB Payments Dates

The Canada Child Benefit (CCB) is paid by the CRA on the following dates:

For the first payment

Your first payment should arrive as follows:

1. within 8 weeks after receiving your online application.
2. within 11 weeks of receiving your mail-in application.

For the next years

If your total benefit amount for the year is less than $240, you will not get a monthly payment. Instead, with your July payment, you will get a single lump sum payment.

To find out when your next payment is due, go to My Account.

Please wait 5 working days before contacting CCB if you do not get your money on the scheduled payment date.

How to Keep getting your payments

your payments may be affected by one-time occurrences in which you will have to report new information in order to continue receiving the benefit.

If you do not file your tax return, your payment will be suspended

You must complete your tax return on time each year to continue receiving your Canada child benefit (CCB) and related provincial and territorial payments. If you have a spouse or common-law partner, they are also responsible for filing their taxes on schedule each year.

Even if your income is tax-free or you have no income, you must file a tax return.

Your payments will stop if you do not file your tax return each year.

The CCB money you get is not taxed. You will not receive a slip, and you will not be required to disclose it on your tax return.

Check to see whether your taxes can be done for free.

Volunteers at a free tax clinic may be able to prepare your tax return for you if you have a low income and a straightforward tax position.

Payment was Stopped.

Your payment may have been halted due to the following reasons:

• You haven’t submitted your tax return.
• You did not respond to the CRA’s letter regarding your circumstances.
• You failed to notify the CRA of a change in:

1. your postal code.

2. your checking account.

• You were married, divorced, or experienced another marital status change.
• Your earnings have risen to an unacceptably high level (recalculation happens every July, based on your income from the previous year, indexed to inflation).
• Your child has turned 18 years old.
• You don’t have a child under your care anymore.
• You no longer fulfill any of the qualifying requirements, such as residence and citizenship requirements.
• A declaration of world income is lacking for you, your spouse, or your common-law partner.

If your circumstance changes, make sure to notify the CRA.

The payment has changed.

For the following reasons, your payment may have changed:

• Your household’s net income has changed (they recalculate payments every July, based on income from the previous year, indexed to inflation).
• The status of your marriage has changed.
• The number of youngsters entrusted to your care has increased.
• Your youngster has reached the age of six.
• One of your children has reached the age of eighteen.
• One of your children has been removed from your custody.
• Your child custody situation has altered.

Details of your calculation may be seen in your benefit announcement in My Account.

Refunding an overpayment

If a recalculation reveals that they overpaid you on CCB, the CRA will issue you a notification with a remittance voucher to notify you of the outstanding sum.

Until your sum due is cleared, the CRA may retain all or a portion of future CCB payments, income tax refunds, or goods and services tax/harmonized sales tax (GST/HST) credits. This may also apply to the CRA’s administration of other federal, provincial, and territory programs.

Go to Payments to the Canada Revenue Agency if you got a payback notification.

Changes and Report Changes of Situations

If you have any information changes that you need to update or modify and you know it will affect your payments, this link will take you to the website to make the appropriate adjustments and get more detailed information. https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/child-family-benefits/canada-child-benefit-overview/canada-child-benefit-after-you-apply.html

How to Calculate your amount of benefit?

Calculate the amount of the canada child benefit you can receive based on your data. https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/child-family-benefits/child-family-benefits-calculator.html