{"id":135488,"date":"2023-01-12T14:35:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T19:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=135488"},"modified":"2023-01-12T14:35:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T19:35:16","slug":"government-of-alberta-rolling-out-inflation-relief-packages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/government-of-alberta-rolling-out-inflation-relief-packages\/","title":{"rendered":"Government of Alberta rolling out inflation relief packages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-cke-copybin-start=\"1\">\u200b<\/span>The Government of Alberta is putting out some inflation relief payments to help Albertans combat the current inflation period.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alberta.ca\/release.cfm?xID=86244EA2C8EF2-E2C7-184D-BF7220917922C327\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eligible Albertans<\/a>\u2014including seniors, families with children under 18-years-old, and vulnerable residents\u2014will receive $600 over a six month time period.<\/p>\n<p>Applications for the program open up on Jan. 18 and stay open until June 30.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Affordability and Utilities Matt Jones, said the long-term goal is \"to help Albertans deal with the inflationary and cost of living pressures they are facing.\"<\/p>\n<p>After the six month time period passes, the program will be re-evaluated, and possibly reinstated if needed, Jones added.<\/p>\n<p>More information on the package and where to apply can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alberta.ca\/affordability-payments.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Alberta government's website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the full CFWE Interview below with Minister Matt Jones:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe Government of Alberta is putting out some inflation relief payments to help Albertans combat the current inflation period. Eligible Albertans\u2014including seniors, families with children under 18-years-old, and vulnerable residents\u2014will receive $600 over a six month time period. Applications for the program open up on Jan. 18 and stay open until June 30. Minister of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":135696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,225],"tags":[8790,22374,14131,22375],"radio":[9847],"origine":[268,267,228],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135488"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135618,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135488\/revisions\/135618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135488"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=135488"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=135488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}