In April 2020, the provincial governments AISH payment formulas were recalculated based on the Government of Canada's Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), a monthly payment of $2000 provided to all eligible Canadians in response to coronavirus recession during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. In April, the UCP Alberta government announced that a "family receiving AISH benefits would see the first $875 fully exempt from the CERB, but any money over and above that is deducted at a rate of 75 per cent." For a single person, they would see the first C$420 fully exempt and any money above that would be deducted. A May 2020 CTV News article explained how for one such family unit in Lethbridge, Alberta with one child, where one individual with cerebral palsy receives an AISH benefit and another family member, a chef laid off from his job because of the pandemic, received C$2000 CERB benefit, had about $900 clawed back by the Alberta government. The family said that, "What they’re doing is deducting from her cheques. They’re taking almost $900 away from what I receive because I’m receiving CERB and at the end of all this, we have another month before things get well enough that I’ll be working again, so that’ll be around $3,200 we’ll be owing AISH."