Universal Child Care Benefit and Child Care Benefit Payments

child care benefit payments: Only two of the top 20 destinations for the enriched UCCB payments landing on July 20 are locations where the opposition NDP would be considered the favourite; and one more in the top 20 would be considered a Liberal seat, according to Brandon Sun. That leaves 17 seats that could be considered Conservative-leaning, home to the voters who could receive the biggest financial windfall when almost $3 billion in child care benefit payments are mailed on Monday — three months before election day in October. Number-crunching based on the last census shows that many of the ridings in line to get the biggest cheques from the newly increased Universal Child Care Benefit are in suburban Alberta and the all-important ridings that surround Toronto — and they usually have a history of tilting Tory. The majority of spending continues to go to Conservative ridings — 15 of the top 20 — even after adjusting the payments to take into account the estimated percentage of families who haven't signed up for the enhanced benefit. But all three main parties have released platform planks designed to woo families who tend to concentrate in the key suburban ridings that could swing the federal election. "The demographic that are all fighting for are the parents, the kids, the families that are just starting out. Opposition parties have criticized the government for giving out the increased benefit payment, backdated to the start of the year, as an election ploy to buy votes. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.