Sponsorship of parents, children, spouses (common-law, conjugal, same sex), refugees.
Do I Owe the Government? - Previous Sponsorship
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derrannoel Posts: 1
Posted On: 5/22/2014
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Hi there,
I sponsored my exhusband approx 15 years ago and the sponsorship for 10 years.
I have recently remarried (april 26, 2014) and now I have concerns, wondering if he ever went on assistance before, I have never been notify or received anything in the mail regarding monies owning and I am so scared to find out.
My main question is if I did owe money would I have gotten a call regarding this or would they have garnish my taxes (and I filed every year).
I also have a connection in social services who was able to see if I owe money and they did not find anything on me or any paper work submitted to immirgration regarding sponsorship.
I try to call my ex concerning this and he swear up and down he never went on it but he did say he try to, at this point I dont know what to believe and I planning to start the paper work for my husband come July 2014.
Can someone help me please am so worried and nervous and loosing sleep.
thank you so much
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Moderator Moderator Posts: 4075
Posted On: 5/27/2014
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Hello,
Thank you for sharing your situation and question with us.
We can appreciate that you would be concerned about this.
As you may already know, the Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services has a centralized Overpayment Recovery Unit (ORU) to collect outstanding social assistance debts from sponsors who have defaulted on their Sponsorship Agreement.
The process involves you receiving a letter from the Overpayment Recovery Unit (ORU) informing you that your sponsored family member has received social assistance.
Generally what happens is, if necessary, the ORU will pursue the sponsorship debt by sending additional letters to you and by referring your case to Canada Revenue Agency's (CRA) Refund Set-Off Program. In that situation, the CRA can garnish (take over) any Income Tax refunds payable to you.
If you are still concerned, you may want to contact the Overpayment Recovery Unit directly.
I hope this information is helpful. Please let us know if you have further questions and if there is any follow up to your question/situation.
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Anna
Settlement.Org Content and Information/Referral Specialist, CIRS
Settlement.Org
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