Feds redo child benefit forms amid concerns 'at-risk' families missing payments

OTTAWA -- The federal government will roll out a simplified application form for the Canada Child Benefit this month -- just as it gets a bump in value -- after hearing about barriers for newcomers and Indigenous people who are eligible but don't go through the paperwork needed to get it. The decision comes months after the minister in charge, Jean-Yves Duclos, was briefed about mounting concerns that eligibility rules and the application itself for the Trudeau government's signature child benef