Today the prime minister addressed concerns that many Canadian students were falling through the cracks of the Canada emergency response benefit (CERB).
Post-secondary students will now be eligible for $1,250 a month from May until August, with $1,750 available for students that have a disability, or if they take care of someone.
Trudeau announced the new measure today alongside $9 billion in financial aid for post-secondary students.
Like some other federal program, payments will be made through the Canada Revenue Agency.
Other measures aimed to help students include:
(1) Raising the maximum weekly amount that can be provided through the Canada student loans program in 2020-2021 to $350 from $210.
(2) More than $75 million in additional supports for Indigenous post-secondary students.
(3) Another $291 million for federal granting councils to extend expiring federal graduate research scholarships and post-doctoral fellowships and supplement existing federal research grants.
