One question brought you here: when does the money arrive? This site exists to answer it with verified dates instead of recycled guesses, for every federal and provincial benefit Canadians receive.
Canada Benefit Dates is an independent reference site for Canadian government benefit payment schedules and the deposit codes banks show for them. We cover CPP, OAS and GIS, the Canada Child Benefit, the Groceries and Essentials Benefit, EI, provincial programs like ODSP, AISH and the Trillium Benefit, and the bank labels Canada FPT, PRO, RIT and FED.
Every date is checked against CRA, Service Canada and provincial sources before publication, re-verified quarterly, and corrected within 24 hours when a government calendar changes. Each page shows its last-verified date, links its official source, and the methodology page keeps a permanent correction log, including the mistakes we caught before they shipped.
We don't publish eligibility promises, we don't tell you what you'll receive, and we don't sell applications or paid help. Entitlements come from the government; schedules and verified facts come from here.
Display advertising. Ads never influence which dates get published or how a program gets described, and there's no sponsored content dressed up as schedules. When the carbon rebate ended, our page said it ended, even though "carbon rebate dates 2026" remains a search other sites happily mislead for traffic.
That's the whole business model, and it only works while the dates stay right. Accuracy isn't a value statement here; it's the product.
The master calendar covers every program's next date, and the decoder explains whatever label your bank printed this morning.