CANADA’S PANDEMIC RESPONSE BENEFIT GETS A LIFT FROM ACCENTURE About Accenture Over 500,000 Accenture employees worldwide deliver strategy, customer insight, integrated customer interaction channels, operations and value optimization into a differentiated capability for clients. The Goal The Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) was an early component of Canada’s federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This program provided cash payments to workers suffering direct and indirect economic impact from the pandemic and associated response, including those with lost income due to closures, reduced demand, school and daycare shutdowns, and the need to act as a home caregiver for a COVID-19 patient. The program was announced in March 2020, in the early days of pandemic response. I

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