Some Canadians who have repaid a pandemic benefit they received by mistake are still seeing their tax refunds withheld by the government.
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has resumed efforts to recover the money through a process it calls “offsetting,” which means that it automatically uses money from tax refunds and some benefits to settle a person’s debt with the government.
But Ottawa’s Sarah Dykeman said she repaid what she owed and still had her tax refund held back last year.
“I spent the next year trying to figure out how to get my tax refund back,” she said.
Dykeman, who was a supply teacher
