Saskatchewan ministry mailed more than 400 tax slips to wrong addresses [Video]

Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Advanced Education says 415 T4A tax slips were mistakenly sent to wrong addresses after errors with an electronic spreadsheet in February last year.

The ministry reported the incident to the office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner in May which then released an investigation report on Dec. 16.

According to the privacy commissioners final report, the incident affected 277 people, with some due to receive more than one T4A document.

At the time of the report’s publishing in December, the commissioner said 154 T4As belonging to 121 people were still missing.

The report says that an employee responsible for producing mailing labels made a mistake while working with an Excel spreadsheet that was used to print labels which then resulted in wrong addresses appearing on the labels. 

Included in the T4A documents sent to the wrong addresses were the names of individuals awarded grants, social insurance …