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Has anyone heard from SSHRC when the increase payments will actually happen? They confirmed that we will get the increase (I received the letter, etc.), but they have so far only said I will receive the original award payment in November and nothing about when the increased amount will be, aside from "soon". Would be nice to know for budgeting purposes.

Ah yes I was awarded the CGS-D, but then converted to the SSHRC doctoral one as I'm at a foreign institution.

I'm assuming that all this updating regarding award amounts is making it difficult (people had to respond within a certain amount of days, they're updating all the Notice of Awards, etc). The award amounts on this list are also not updated to the current ones. As they note, all awards are on the open government portal (I'm on that one). So I think the lists are very provisional and instead of updating them, they just refer to the government platform instead.

Well strangely I'm not on the list and I have already received one instalment...so the list is clearly incomplete haha

Actually, I'm not sure about the $113,667 figure. I'm one of the 4-year award holders with a May 1, 2024 start date. While they mention the 44 months after September 1, 2024 in contrast to the 48 months total, my award ($80,000) is increased by $40,000. So I guess I would received a prorated amount in my next instalment.

Totally agree with you all. It really isn’t fair based on the announcement and how proud the government is to increase ALL awards to $40K/Year. I wasn’t ever going to use the entire 4 years anyways as I applied after I already started the PhD. I’ll probably only use 2 years total of funding (but I was still awarded the full four years of funding). In an ideal world, I should argue and get the 40K/Year and the funding stops if I ever reach 120K. I wonder if those who received a fellowship for two or three years will get $40K/Year. I’m still a bit confused, especially because I got this other reply. Does this mean I won’t be getting the full amount this year as I’ve already received a May instalment?: The award increase will be automatically applied to all new and ongoing awards. Payments will be adjusted for the prorated value of the award increase, based on the time the award is active after September 1, 2024.

I think we’re in the same boat right (Doctoral Fellowship and not the CGS?). Have you received the email yet?

Or maybe it’s because you have a CGS and I have the foreign institution one. They’ll likely reduce ours to 3 years then too.

Oh nice, thanks for the info. I wonder why I haven’t got the email yet, and I’m an award holder…probably just backed up? I guess our emails for award notification back in April did take a while

Do you mean they uploaded new documents on the extranet reflecting the new amounts (ie $40k/year)? Did you get an email notifying you?

I called the tech desk (to ask about the extranet) and all he could say was that they were in a busy period and generally behind. I also checked and my documents were also deleted, so let's just say they are preparing new ones. We might have to wait a bit longer, but would be nice if they sent a reassuring "don't worry we're on it..." sort of email.

I think we can expect both. They mentioned they would email us in July when details were finalized. On another note, I randomly went to the extranet to see if the award letter was changed, but I keep getting a “500 internal service error”. Anyone else?

Nothing 😕 I guess they did say “July” so we could be waiting another 1.5 weeks.

I understand your points, but the fact is that whether we chose May, September, or January as the first payment, we are all in the same award-year cycle, i.e., we are the same cohort. It would be odd for them to split up this group, especially when we were allowed to choose May start before the announcements were made. I've seen some professors on Twitter ask this question about their doctoral students. Regarding your point with the existing award holders, I guess it would just be that their increase would be effective for their year. In any case, I hope SSHRC has communicated the position May-holders are in. But who knows, we'll have to wait a couple more weeks to hear (hopefully it's beginning and not the end of July)

Yes I agree with you. I emailed to ask some insight, ie., will people who received a May payment only receive a partial increase to their November payment (10K then 20K, so their annual amount this year would only be 30K), and they responded by reiterating the budget statement. I take the point that "increased award values take effect as of September 1" to mean that the money will flow from September, and those who already received a payment will either receive a supplement or a bigger second instalment, so everyone in the 2024-2025 cycle will received the increased amounts, such as 40K, irrespective when their payment schedule is. Hoping this is the case...