Marissa Birnie 2025年7月3日
https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/fact_checking/online-posts-mislead-about-annual-benefits-for-refugees-in-canada/article_5a269166-4bf4-56f5-8823-3929c32fb452.html
网上帖子误导公众关于加拿大难民年度福利的信息 2025年6月5日，星期四，移民、难民和公民事务部长Lena Metlege Diab在渥太华国会山的质询环节中发言。难民从联邦政府获得的直接福利远低于一些网上帖子的宣传。加拿大通讯社/Adrian Wyld
一段TikTok视频声称，难民每年从联邦政府获得8.2万加元的免税福利，而加拿大人平均每年仅获得6.3万加元。这种说法具有误导性。费用明细包括难民抵达加拿大后获得的临时住宿，但这笔费用不太可能达到8.2万加元。虽然难民可以通过联邦安置援助计划获得收入支持，但这种援助是暂时的，每年的金额不会达到8.2万加元。
谣言
“你知道吗，你什么都不做就能从加拿大政府获得高达 82,000 加元的补助？”一位 TikTok 用户在 6 月份发布的一段视频中问道，该视频的播放量超过 13 万次。
根据视频内容，加拿大难民每天从联邦政府获得 224 加元，其中包括 140 加元的住宿费和 84 加元的伙食费。
该视频将难民每年获得的 82,000 加元与其声称的加拿大人平均年收入 63,000 加元进行了比较，以突显难民与加拿大公民年收入之间的差距。
该谣言还出现在其他社交媒体上，包括 X 平台（前身为 Twitter）和 Facebook。
评级：误导性
加拿大难民通过加拿大移民、难民和公民部 (IRCC) 管理的联邦安置援助计划 (RAP) 获得援助。
然而，他们抵达加拿大后在临时住所期间获得的资金支持不会直接转入他们的银行账户，而且在大多数情况下，每年不会达到 82,000 加元。
根据移民部长办公室 2024 年 3 月给国会议员 Lianne Rood 的回复，无论难民申请人如何进入加拿大，入住 IRCC 运营的酒店后，都会获得住宿和餐饮。
根据 2024 年 1 月的费率，每间客房的平均费用为每晚 140 加元，每位难民申请人每天 84 加元。加起来，费用为 224 加元。
但是，这 140 加元适用于酒店房间，而不是个人。房间可以同时容纳多名难民（例如一个家庭），从而降低每人的费用。
IRCC 将临时住所的标准停留时间设定为一至三周。然而，根据加拿大移民与公民部 (IRCC) 于 2024 年 8 月发布的报告，2023 年的内部数据仪表盘显示，“全国平均在临时住房的居住时间为 60 天”，并且“54% 的受访难民表示居住时间超过一个月”。
这意味着大多数难民在临时住所的居住时间不足以获得价值 8.2 万加元的食物和住房。
那么，难民实际上得到了什么呢？
加拿大新闻社于 4 月进行了一项事实核查，调查了类似的关于难民支持金额的误导性说法，并参考了安大略省 2024 年 9 月的 RAP 费率，以确定难民个人或家庭每月可获得的福利金额。
RAP 包含两个部分。第一部分为服务提供商组织提供短期资金，这些组织提供上述临时住所，并满足难民抵达加拿大后的其他紧急需求。
一旦难民获得永久住房，他们就有资格获得直接经济援助，包括一次性付款和每月收入补贴，最长可达一年，在“特殊情况下”可获得两年，或直至难民能够自给自足。
按照这些标准，安大略省单身成年人每月最低可获得约 1,094 加元，而六口之家每月可获得约 1,700 加元。
具体标准因省而异，家庭、残疾人士或生育需求者获得的金额可能更高。
每月援助金包括基本生活必需品、住房、通讯和交通费用，以及最高 200 加元的住房补贴。
这些每月福利通常会以直接存款的形式直接存入难民的银行账户，但普通难民每年获得的金额远低于 82,000 加元。
虽然 RAP 援助无需纳税，但如果难民有收入，则必须纳税。加拿大统计局的数据显示，在“新登陆移民”中，难民抵达加拿大后最有可能报税，报税率约为 95%。
根据加拿大统计局的数据，截至 2023 年，加拿大人的平均收入为 59,400 加元。
根据加拿大统计局的数据，在 2022 纳税年度，2011 年至 2021 年期间抵达加拿大的庇护申请人的收入从 19,600 加元到 34,400 加元不等。
Online posts mislead about annual benefits for refugees in Canada
Marissa Birnie
https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/fact_checking/online-posts-mislead-about-annual-benefits-for-refugees-in-canada/article_5a269166-4bf4-56f5-8823-3929c32fb452.html
https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/fact_checking/online-posts-mislead-about-annual-benefits-for-refugees-in-canada/article_5a269166-4bf4-56f5-8823-3929c32fb452.html
Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Lena Metlege Diab rises during Question Period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Thursday, June 5, 2025. Refugees make much less in direct benefits from the federal government than some online posts claim. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
A TikTok video claimed refugees receive $82,000 in tax-free benefits per year from the federal government, while the average Canadian receives only $63,000. This claim is misleading. The cost breakdown includes temporary accommodation that refugees receive upon arrival in Canada, but the scenario in which this would reach $82,000 is unlikely. While refugees receive income support through the federal Resettlement Assistance Plan, such assistance is temporary and does not amount to $82,000 annually.
THE CLAIM
"You know you can get up to $82,000 Canadian dollars from Canadian government for doing nothing?" asks a TikTok user in a June video with more than 130,000 plays.
According to the video, refugees in Canada receive $224 per day from the federal government, including $140 for accommodation and $84 for food.
The video makes the comparison between the supposed $82,000 refugees receive annually and what it claims is the average Canadian income of $63,000 to highlight the disparity between a refugee versus Canadian citizen's annual income.
The claim made its way to other social media, including the X platform, formerly Twitter, and Facebook.
RATING: Misleading
Refugees in Canada receive assistance through the federal Resettlement Assistance Program (RAP) administered by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC).
However, the monetary support they receive during their temporary accommodations after arriving in Canada doesn't go directly into their bank accounts and in most cases would not reflect $82,000 annually.
According to a March 2024 response from the immigration minister's office to MP Lianne Rood, refugee claimants in IRCC-operated hotels are provided with accommodations and meals once relocated, regardless of how they entered Canada.
The average cost per room was $140 per night per room and $84 per day per claimant, based on January 2024 rates. Added together, the cost amounts to $224.
However, the $140 applies to hotel rooms, not individuals. Rooms may house several refugees at once — a family, for example — lowering the cost per person.
The IRCC has set the standard length of stay for temporary accommodations at one to three weeks. However, a 2023 internal dashboard showed "the national average stay in temporary housing was 60 days," and "54 per cent of surveyed refugees reported staying for longer than one month," according to an IRCC report released in August 2024.
That means most refugees aren't staying in temporary accommodations long enough to get $82,000 worth of food and housing.
So what do refugees actually receive?
An April fact check from The Canadian Press investigating similar misleading claims about refugee support amounts consulted RAP rates for Ontario in September 2024 to find the monthly benefit amount an individual or family of refugees could receive.
There are two components to the RAP. The first provides short-term funding to service provider organizations, which deliver the temporary accommodations mentioned above, and cover other immediate needs after refugees arrive in Canada.
Once refugees secure permanent housing, they're eligible for direct financial support – including one-time payments and monthly income support – for up to one year, or two years in "exceptional circumstances," or until a refugee can support themselves.
The minimum monthly payment for a single adult in Ontario going by those rates would be around $1,094 per month, while a family of six could receive around $1,700 monthly.
Exact rates vary by province and families and people with disabilities or maternity needs could receive more.
The monthly payment includes money for basic needs, shelter, communication and transportation as well as a housing supplement, which maxes out at $200.
Those monthly benefits typically go directly to the refugee's bank account as a direct deposit, but the average refugee wouldn't receive anywhere near $82,000 per year.
While RAP assistance isn't taxable, refugees must pay taxes if they earn an income and, as data from Statistics Canada shows, they are in fact the most likely immigration group among "newly landed immigrants" to file their taxes upon arriving in Canada, at around 95 per cent.
In the 2022 tax year, the income of asylum claimants who arrived in Canada between 2011 and 2021 varied from $19,600 to $34,400, according to Statistics Canada.
SOURCES
Claim posted to TikTok June 20, 2025 (archived) and to X June 21, 2025 (archived) and Facebook May 8, 2025 (archived)
Resettlement Assistance Program (RAP) Service Provider Handbook. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada via Government of Canada website. Accessed July 2, 2025 (archived)
Evaluation of the Refugee Resettlement Program. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada website. August 2024 (archived)
Marissa Birnie. Posts mislead on refugee support amounts. The Canadian Press website. April 24, 2025 (archived)
Ontario Resettlement Assistance Program (RAP) Rates September 01, 2024. Refugee Sponsorship Training Program website. Accessed July 2, 2025 (archived)
Tahsin Mehdi et al. Tax-filing rates of newly landed immigrants in Canada: Trends and insights. Statistics Canada website. Nov. 22, 2023 (archived)
Income of individuals by age group, sex and income source, Canada, provinces and selected census metropolitan areas. Statistics Canada website. May 1, 2025 (archived)
Income of asylum claimants by claim year and tax year, for Canada and provinces, 2022 constant dollars. Statistics Canada website. Dec. 9, 2024 (archived)
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