MANITOBA-CP-The Manitoba government has apologized in the legislature for clawing back federal benefit payments to kids in the child welfare system. The apology is part of a settlement of a class-action lawsuit, approved by a judge last month, that will see the province pay out $530 million. The agreement will compensate roughly 30,000 children who spent time in child welfare, some of whom have since become adults, for money the province took between 2005 and 2019. The province clawed back a monthly federal benefit called the Children’s Special Allowance. It goes to agencies that care for children and mirrors the monthly Canada Child Benefit cheques given to parents raising children across the country. Families Minister Nahanni Fontaine says the province is sorry for having withheld the money. “This was not…
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