The Government of Canada has announced that some self-employed Canadians who were ineligible to receive the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), and received it anyway, will not be forced to repay the money.
In a statement released in February, the federal government said that self-employed Canadians who applied for, and received CERB payments based on their gross income instead of their net income would not be required to repay the benefit on their 2020 tax year return - as long they also met all other eligibility criteria.