{
  "id": 19212631,
  "title": "Feds wrote off $4.5B in COVID benefit repayments in 2025: auditor general",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/09/feds-wrote-off-4-5b-in-covid-benefit-repayments-in-2025-auditor-19212631",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-11-09T20:15:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Global News",
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    "url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/12143258/covid-benefits-written-off-2025-auditor-general/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The federal government is trying to recoup payments made to Canadians during the COVID-19 pandemic in cases where it determines someone was overpaid or was ineligible.",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Winnipeg Free Press",
        "title": "Ottawa wrote off $4.5B in COVID benefit repayments last year: auditor general",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/09/ottawa-wrote-off-4-5b-in-covid-benefit-repayments-last-year-auditor",
        "published": "2026-11-09T18:25:36.000Z"
      }
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}