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Canada Child Tax Benefit - Monthly Payments

Did you know that the Canada Revenue Agency issues on a monthly basis The Canada Child Tax Benefit (CCTB), a tax-free monthly payment to eligible families to help them with the cost of raising children under the age of 18.

Payment for July 2005 was made on July 20, 2005 totalling more than $806 million to more than 3 million recipients across Canada. Recipients who are entitled to this benefit payment and have not received it by July 30, 2005 should contact the Agency's enquiry service at 1-800-387-1193.

The next monthly payment will be made on August 19, 2005. For more information see the Canada Child Tax Benefit section of the CRA web site.

Child Tax Benefit payments, Feb. 18

Today the Canada Revenue Agency issued the February Canada Child Tax Benefit (CCTB) payments. Payments totalled more than $736 million, to more than 2.9 million recipients across Canada.

From the CRA Web site:

"Recipients who are expecting a benefit payment and have not received it by February 25, should contact the Agency's CCTB enquiry service at 1-800-387-1193. This service is available weekdays from 8:15 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., local time.

In order to receive, or continue to receive, CCTB payments, recipients and their spouses or common-law partners have to file a tax return."

More information is available at:
http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/newsroom/releases/2005/feb/0218cctb-e.html