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The parents of as many as 200,000 children will need to apply for the Harper government's new Universal Child Care Benefit before they can get any money, according to figures supplied to CBC News Online by Canada Revenue Agency.
The 200,000 figure is the difference between the 2.1 million children under age six who live in Canada and the 1.9 million children already in Canada Revenue Agency's database &emdash; usually because of a previous application by their parents for the Canada Child Tax Benefit (CCTB).
The Universal Child Care Benefit will come automatically for parents who have already applied for the CCTB. For those who haven't applied, the money won't begin to flow until an application is sent in.
Thousands of parents of young children have never applied for the CCTB because their income is too high for them to be eligible.
Those parents would need to apply for the new benefit by completing the Canada Child Tax Benefit application form, if they want to claim their share of it. The form can be downloaded from the CRA website.
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- reprinted from the CBC News