Executive Summary

Canadians receive their rightful share of entitlements

The benefit programs administered by the CRA, such as the Canada Child Tax Benefit (CCTB), the GST/HST credit, Children's Special Allowances, and the disability tax credit, make a significant contribution to the economic and social well-being of Canadians. We issued more than 70 million CCTB and GST/HST credit payments, totalling close to $12.5 billion, to over 11 million low- and moderate-income recipients.

Again this year, we issued on time more than 99% of all CCTB, GST/HST credit, and provincial and territorial payments for the programs that we administer. We also met our targets for the timely and accurate processing of applications for benefit and account adjustments, as well as for processing the benefit amounts resulting from these in-year transactions.

To improve the degree of compliance with benefit rules, we increased the number of CCTB accounts selected for review and achieved an increase in our validation adjustment rate. This enabled us to minimize the amounts of overpayments under these programs.

Date modified:

2005-10-26