Canada

Yeah, I remember helping people look up the rules. JT was very clear, as was everyone else involved in the program. The point was helping people who needed it now^1. There was no verification at the time. They would go through and identify those who didn't qualify later, when the emergency had passed.

I have little sympathy for people who were fully employed at the time, applied, and then play dumb. Sure, if you were on some modified work schedule or work sharing thing... it was a weird time. People could have been confused. It was always 100% clear from the start that it was meant from those who were being furloughed, laid off, put on unpaid leave, etc.

^1 Well not now now, but then now.