Increase to the maximum annual Canada Child Benefit (CCB) payment amounts
Published on April 2, 2020
Increasing the Canada Child Benefit by $300 per child for the month of May 2020. The benefit for children under the age of six will increase from $6,639 to $6,939 and the benefit for children ages six to seventeen will increase from $5,602 to $5,902. $1.9 billion for 2020-21; 3.4 million recipients with an average benefit of $556 per recipient