Have both you and your spouse filed income tax returns for each of the years you have been receiving the UCCB?
Are both you and your spouse Canadian Citizens/Permanent Residents or legal status to be residing in Canada?
If you are separated from the other parent, do you have a clear primary caregiver?
Rules for receiving the benefit are pretty simple:
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1. Who is eligible for the universal child care benefit (UCCB)?
To receive the UCCB, all the following conditions must be met.
a) You must live with the child, and the child must be under the age of 6;
b) You must be the person who is primarily responsible for the care and upbringing of the child;
This means you are responsible for such things as supervising the child's daily activities and needs, making sure the child's medical needs are met, and arranging for child care when necessary. If there is a female parent who lives with the child, we usually consider her to be this person. However, it could be the father, a grandparent, or a guardian.
Note: You may not be considered primarily responsible for the care and upbringing of a child if the child is legally, physically or financially maintained by a child welfare agency. For more information, go to the children's special allowances (CSA) fact sheet or call 1-800-387-1193.
c) You must be a resident of Canada;
We consider you to be a resident of Canada when you establish sufficient residential ties in Canada.
d) You or your spouse or common-law partner must be:
Canadian citizen;
"permanent resident" (as defined in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act);
"protected person" (as defined in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act); or
"temporary resident" (as defined in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act) who has lived in Canada throughout the previous 18 months, and who has a valid permit in the 19th month (other than one that states "does not confer status"). If this is your situation, you should not apply before the 19th month.
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The other possibility is that they haven't read the information from the random audit prior to sending you the notice of repayment. I've been through this several times with the CRA as I was previously married to an immigrant They would ask for information and then a couple weeks later send me a notice for repayment of benefits. I would pay them (DO NOT delay in paying them, they will hound you and go after wages and charge you huge amounts of interest after only a couple weeks. They did this to me over $110. If they decide you have to pay, you pay) and then they would get around to reading the information I sent to them when asked for proof and they would re-issue me a cheque a couple weeks after that saying the benefits were actually mine. In blunt honesty, the people working at CRA are not the brightest crayons in the box.