Auto-enrol every eligible Canadian in the Canada Workers Benefit. Raise the maximum benefit to $2,500 for individuals and $4,000 for families by 2027, indexed to inflation.
Every year, hundreds of millions of dollars in federal benefits go unclaimed — not because Canadians don't need the money, but because the government makes it too complicated to get it. In 2021, eligible workers left an estimated $212 million in Canada Workers Benefit payments unclaimed — not because they were refused, but because they did not file a tax return. Statistics Canada puts the non-filing rate among otherwise-eligible workers at 8.4% to 9.2% between 2019 and 2021, rising to roughly 60% among those who had skipped filing the previous year and to 40.2% among non-permanent residents. The 2019 reform that created the CWB added advance payments; it did not close this gap, because the gap is a filing gap. The CRA already has the income data to determine eligibility automatically. There is no technical reason this requires a 42-step form. There is only a political reason — and we reject it.
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Calculations use the Canada Revenue Agency's Canada Workers Benefit rates for the 2025 tax year — the year currently being filed — checked against the CRA on 15 September 2026. Policy amounts reflect Sovereign Party Canada commitments, subject to parliamentary approval. Source: CRA — Canada Workers Benefit
Auto-enrolment. The CRA already has the income data it needs to determine CWB eligibility when Canadians file their taxes. We would require the CRA to automatically calculate and issue the CWB to every eligible individual without requiring a separate claim. The CRA piloted this in New Brunswick and found it had a positive impact. We would make it national.
Expand the benefit. We would increase the maximum to $2,500 for individuals and $4,000 for families by 2027, indexed annually to the Consumer Price Index.
Raise the phase-out threshold. Currently the benefit disappears entirely for single individuals earning above $37,742. We would raise this to $45,000 for individuals and $55,000 for families, removing the penalty on earning more.
Auto-enrolment: under $30 million one-time implementation cost. Benefit expansion to $2,500/$4,000: approximately $2.1 billion annually, funded by closing the capital gains exemption on investment income above $250,000.