Alberta shuttered its problem-plagued provincial support program Monday COVIDab
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney initially announced the benefit March 19, and opened applications that week.
But over the past few weeks, many Albertans who went to apply for the benefit say they were faced with long wait times and denied applications for seemingly no reason. Victoria Thomson and her husband run a small plumbing business in rural central Alberta. She said she’s immunocompromised and has lost work because of the pandemic.
WATCH: Federal economic-relief package for COVID-19 is biggest in history: Freeland. Story continues below. “There’s really no reason, I met all the criteria on the page,” she said. “They just made it really hard for people and just denied people arbitrarily. It’s, you know at this point in time there is just no excuse, this is downright cruel.”
But like Thomson, Milne said once he finally got through the application — having to stop and restart several times — he was ultimately denied.After reaching out to the government to ask why he was denied, Milne said he was told it was because the system flagged he was under 18 — which he is not.
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