{"id":6493,"date":"2018-05-23T08:47:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T13:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.une-sen.org\/press\/?p=6493"},"modified":"2018-06-06T11:50:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T16:50:36","slug":"fix-phoenix-pay-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=6493","title":{"rendered":"New financial losses covered by claims process: what you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.une-sen.org\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PhoenixGrievances.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6517\" src=\"http:\/\/www.une-sen.org\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PhoenixGrievances.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PhoenixGrievances.png 600w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PhoenixGrievances-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/PhoenixGrievances-150x94.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Employees who earned salary in 2016, but were not paid a portion of this salary until 2017, may have incurred financial losses due to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paying a higher rate of income tax<\/li>\n<li>Reduced government benefits and credits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you paid a higher rate of income tax due to receiving a portion of your 2016 salary in 2017, you can now submit a claim for the difference between what you paid, and what you should have paid had your salary been paid to you on time. Please make sure you have your correct 2017 notice of assessment before submitting the claim.<\/p>\n<p>Receiving a portion of your 2016 salary in 2017 may have affected your eligibility for certain government benefits and credits. Starting in July 2018, employees will be able to submit claims related to their 2018 government benefits and credits, such as the Canada child benefit, GST\/HST rebates, and daycare subsidies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>More information <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before preparing your claim, PSAC strongly urges members to review the following information from Treasury Board:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/treasury-board-secretariat\/services\/pay\/submit-impacts-income-taxes-government-benefits-credits.html\">Claims for expenses and financial losses due to Phoenix: Claim for impacts to income taxes and government benefits<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/treasury-board-secretariat\/services\/pay\/frequently-asked-questions-impacts-income-tax-government-benefits.html\">Frequently asked questions about claims for impacts to income tax and to government benefits<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Departments and agencies have assigned claims officers to help you with this process. You can find the contact information for your department\u2019s claims officer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbs-sct.gc.ca\/ap\/list-liste\/phoenix-phenix-eng.asp\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Other eligible expenses<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget, you can still claim for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/treasury-board-secretariat\/services\/pay\/submit-claim-pocket-expenses-phoenix.html\">out-of-pocket expenses<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/treasury-board-secretariat\/services\/pay\/submit-claim-fees-tax-advisory-services.html\">tax services<\/a> (up to $200), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/treasury-board-secretariat\/services\/pay\/submit-request-recoverable-advance-social-benefits.html\">an advance on missing benefits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have suffered a financial loss or incurred expenses due to Phoenix, but you do not find your particular situation described in the information provided at the above links, PSAC encourages you to still submit a claim. According to Treasury Board: \u201cIf you have incurred a permanent financial loss because of Phoenix, fill out a claim and add as much information as you can. Our goal is to correct each situation and we review each claim on a case-by-case basis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employees who earned salary in 2016, but were not paid a portion of this salary until 2017, may have incurred financial losses due to: Paying a higher rate of income tax Reduced government benefits and credits If you paid a higher rate of income tax due to receiving a portion of your 2016 salary in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=6493\" class=\"more-link\">>><span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New financial losses covered by claims process: what you need to know&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,12,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6493"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6518,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493\/revisions\/6518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}