83,000 low income seniors to get overdue gis payments — but no interest /

Published at 2016-02-29 22:47:15

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The federal government is shelling out some $245 million in long-overdue payments to low-income seniors after discovering they had been shortchanged for as long as seven years. But officials say no interest will be paid to compensate people who were denied as much as $40000 in guaranteed income supplement payments.

Source: www.cbc.ca