Wage Earner Protection Program Act

Marginal note:Determination of overpayment

• 32 (1) If the Minister determines that an individual who received a payment was not eligible to receive the payment or has received a payment in an amount greater than the amount the individual was eligible to receive, the Minister shall send to the individual a notice

  • (a) informing the individual of the determination; and

  • (b) specifying the amount that the individual was not eligible to receive.

• Marginal note:Debt due to Her Majesty

  (2) The amount specified in the notice may be recovered from the individual as a debt due to Her Majesty in right of Canada.

• Marginal note:Certificate of default

  (3) The amount of any debt referred to in subsection (2) that remains unpaid 30 days after the notice referred to in that subsection is sent may be certified by the Minister, and registration of the certificate in the Federal Court has the same effect as a judgment of that Court for a debt of the amount specified in the certificate and all related registration costs.