Supplemental Benefits Received by Three Governor in Council Appointees Within the Department of Employment and Social Development Remission Order: SI/2023-67

Canada Gazette, Part II, Volume 157, Number 23

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SI/2023-67 November 8, 2023

FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION ACT

P.C. 2023-1069 October 27, 2023

Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, considering that the collection of certain supplemental benefits received in error is unreasonable and unjust, on the recommendation of the Treasury Board, the Minister of Employment and Social Development and the Minister of Families, Children and Social Development makes the annexed Supplemental Benefits Received by Three Governor in Council Appointees Within the Department of Employment and Social Development Remission Order under subsection 23(2.1)^{footnote a} of the Financial Administration Act^{footnote b}.

Supplemental Benefits Received by Three Governor in Council Appointees Within the Department of Employment and Social Development Remission Order

Remission

1 Remission of the supplemental benefits received due to administrative error by three Governor in Council appointees within the Department of Employment and Social Development is granted to those appointees with respect to the following positions and the following periods:

• (a) the Chairperson and the Member with particular responsibilities for children’s issues, since their appointment in April 2021 as full-time members of the National Advisory Council on Poverty and during their prior tenure as Ministerial appointees under the Department of Employment and Social Development Act from September 2019 to March 2021; and
• (b) the Chief Accessibility Officer, since her appointment to the full-time position in May 2022.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order.)

The Governor in Council, finding that it is unreasonable and unjust to collect the debt, makes the Supplemental Benefits Received by Three Governor in Council Appointees Within the Department of Employment and Social Development Remission Order pursuant to subsection 23(2.1) of the Financial Administration Act.

The Order remits the debts unknowingly incurred by two full-time appointees to the National Advisory Council on Poverty and by the full-time Chief Accessibility Officer as a result of administrative error and oversight.

Contacts

Marianna Giordano
Senior Director
Poverty Reduction and Social Inclusion Division
Social Policy Directorate
Strategic and Service Policy Branch
Employment and Social Development Canada
Telephone: 613‑266‑6195
Email: marianna.giordano@hrsdc-rhdcc.gc.ca

Marzieh Tafaghod
Executive Director
Programs and Regulations Division
Accessible Canada Directorate
Income Security and Social Development Branch
Employment and Social Development Canada
Telephone: 613‑617‑9943
Email: marzieh.tafaghod@hrsdc-rhdcc.gc.ca