Support from the CRA during difficult situations
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Support from the CRA during difficult situations
How to keep getting your Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) payments if you are in an abusive situation or affected by a disaster, and how to protect your personal information. Get help with your CRA debt or past COVID-19 benefits and subsidies.
Services and information
Your business and tariffs
Tax relief measures and support for businesses in response to tariffs
You are affected by a disaster
If you cannot get your CRA payment cheques, pay a debt, or have lost your tax records due to a disaster
You are a victim of abuse or violence
How to get your CRA payments and confirm your personal information if your situation has changed
You are experiencing financial hardship
Arrange to pay a debt over time, delay a payment, find debt relief options for specific situations
You are a victim of a scam or identity theft
Call us to place protections on your CRA account if you were scammed or notice suspicious activity
Past support programs
You received COVID-19 benefits from the CRA
Eligibility for closed CRA benefits, validating your application and repaying benefit overpayments
Your business received COVID-19 subsidies
Eligibility for past wage and rent subsidies, claim periods, calculations, and repayments
You received the one-time top-up to the Canada Housing Benefit
Who was eligible, what to do if your application is being reviewed or if you need to return the payment
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- Date modified:
- 2025-04-10