If anyone, anywhere, wants to apply . It's not illegal to apply. First create a CRA account, whatever the hell that is.

"I noticed all three of them, living in the same household, are getting two $2,000 cheques," she told CBC News. (The second cheques are retroactive payments.)

"So, $12,000 all on the same day. None of them were eligible."

Few realize that they'll have to pay taxes on the additional income and could see clawbacks of other benefits, such as tax credits or the Guaranteed Income Supplement, the source said.

Some inmates at a jail in Trois-Rivières, Que., have been sent CERB cheques, according to Radio-Canada. Correctional Service officers intercepted the payments when they arrived at the prison.

Could not have been executed any worse. Automatic approval online makes people think they are entitled to the payout. Only to be sucked into a debit to the government.