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New rules for people who lost loved ones, and had to pay back carbon tax rebate

Last Updated May 18, 2017 at 7:42 am MDT

Alberta is bringing in new rules to make amends to more than four thousand families who lost a loved one and were ordered to pay back their carbon tax rebate.

Finance Minister Joe Ceci says no one will be asked to repay the rebate after a death and those who did will get their money back.

Ceci says it was a problem he and his department had not anticipated, but are determined to make right.

The changes are contained in a bill Ceci has introduced in the legislature.

Since January 1, the province has been taking in tax on gasoline at the pumps and on home heating bills to pay for initiatives to move Alberta to a more green economy.

Middle- and lower-income families get the money back in rebates paid out on a sliding scale.