Contact the CRA - Canada child benefit (CCB)
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Canada child benefit
Contact the CRA
Did your payments change or stop?
Find out why your payments may have changed or stopped before contacting us.
- Online:
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Get your personalized benefit information in My Account.
Alternative: MyCRA web app
What you can do online:
- apply for the Canada child benefit (CCB)
- view CCB and related provincial and territorial programs payments, account balance, and statement of account
- view and update children in your care
- update your personal information, including your address and your marital status
- By phone:
- Call CCB and related provincial and territorial programs
- Before you call
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To verify your identity, you'll need
- Social Insurance Number
- Personal details about the children in your care
- Information from previous benefit payments
If you are calling the CRA on behalf of someone else, you must be an authorized representative.
- Telephone number
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1-800-387-1193
Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut:
1-866-426-1527 - Hours
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Table 1 - Hours for the CCB and related provincial and territorial programs
Day Hours Mon to Fri 8 am to 8 pm (local time) Sat 9 am to 5 pm (local time) Sun Closed Closed on public holidays
- Before you call
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To verify your identity, you'll need
- Social Insurance Number
- Personal details about the children in your care
- Information from previous benefit payments
If you are calling the CRA on behalf of someone else, you must be an authorized representative
- Telephone number
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1-800-959-2809
- Hours
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Table 2 - Hours for Alberta benefit programs
Day Hours Mon to Fri 8 am to 8 pm (Mountain time) Sat 9 am to 5 pm (Mountain time) Sun Closed Closed on public holidays
If you received too much CCB or other child and family benefits, you need to repay them. Call this number if you need to speak to an agent to make payment arrangements.
- Before you call
- To verify your identity, you'll need
- Social Insurance Number
- Personal details about the children in your care
- Information from previous benefit payments
- Details from your account or an assessed return, notice of assessment, reassessment, or other tax document
- Telephone number
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1-888-863-8662
- Hours
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Table 3 - hours for payment arrangement on CCB overpayments
Day Hours Mon to Fri 7 am to 8 pm (Eastern time) Sat and Sun Closed Closed on public holidays
- By mail:
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Address of the tax centre to mail your child and family benefit forms
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- Date modified:
- 2023-04-12