November 21, 2022 - Updates, priorities of the week

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Invitation

Monday, November 21, 2022 – 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

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Agenda

1. Updates

2. Roundtable

Notes and action items

Passports

●       Making quality of life updates to check status workflow.

●       Working to consolidate the How to apply pages

Covid

●       No updates

Dental

●       Pages launching November 28, with benefit applications beginning in December

LAC

●       New census search tool has been soft launched

●       It’s currently in beta and will fully launch next week

Health Canada

●       Had a comment come in from a member of the public about broken links to Consultations pages - the pages are being fixed

●       Reminder to run broken links checks and watch for expiring redirects

Jobs and Benefits

●      Updated the Benefits payment dates web page with the 2023 payment dates

CRA

2 benefits using a “get ready to apply” approach:

●      One-time top-up to the Canada Housing Benefit - tax-free one-time payment of $500 if your income and the amount that you pay on rent qualify

●      Canada Dental Benefit - interim benefit to help lower dental costs for eligible families earning less than $90,000 per year

NRCan

News release: Making home heating more affordable while fighting climate change - program to help households move to electric heat pumps instead of expensive home heating oil