Jason Payne / PNGDo the arithmetic of 20 children under seven and 78 between the ages of seven and 18 and it adds up to a $43,160 payday for Bountiful, B.C. polygamist Winston Blackmore, shown in 2012 leaving a Vancouver court, and his wives.
There was no bigger winner than Bountiful, B.C., polygamist Winston Blackmore last month when the Canadian government sent out cheques for the expanded Universal Child Care Benefit.
Blackmore, who is awaiting trial on a single criminal charge of polygamy, has 133 children ranging in age from babies to adults.
For every child under the age of six, Canadian parents received $520, and for every child aged seven to 18, they received $420, with no restrictions on how the money could be spent.
Using the best information available from several sources, the 58-year-old fundamentalist Mormon leader has as many as 98 children who are 18 or younger, and as many as 20 of those are seven and younger.