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COM O TTAWA - The NDP believes some Canadians signed over their universal child care benefit to the party because they see it as a Tory ploy to buy votes months before an election. " We saw a clear uptick," NDP spokeswoman Greta Levy said days after the payouts wereissued. The NDP did not say how many donations in amounts of $ 420, $ 520 or multiples of those numbers were donated this week, but said it's enough to be noticeable. There was chatter on Twitter this week that some people had donated their payouts. The Harper government announced last November it would expand the benefit this year by $ 60 per child. It increased the amount for children under six to $ 160 each and introduced a new $ 60 benefit for kids from six to 17. It's an extra $ 720 of taxable income for parents this year. The increased $ 60 payments for the first six months were withheld pending parliamentary approval, so parents got back pay of $ 420 or $ 520 per child, depending on the child's age, with the back pay for the first six months, plus the July payment issued on July 20. Many people responded by accusing the Tories of trying to buy their vote, as the expanded program unrolled less than 100 days before the next election, and some decided to take the money and donate it to their favoured party. Olivier Duschesneau, Liberal party spokesman, said the party has so many transactions it can't determine whether any are from people donating their child benefits, but he said Leader Justin Trudeau donated his family's payment to charity and encouraged other Canadians who don't need the cash to follow suit. Ella Forbes- Chilibeck, an Ottawa labour lawyer, handed the amounts she received for her two children to the NDP, and wrote a letter to a dozen friends and family members encouraging them to donate theirs to either the NDP or Liberals, whichever they preferred. " I find it so offensive," said Forbes- Chilibeck. " I don't want to take it. It's icky." She said her partner is " very Conservative" and even he was put off by the campaign. Forbes- Chilibeck said four others told her they donated their money; three to the NDP and one to the Liberals. She said it's not the program itself she is offended by, although she does think there are better ways of running a child- care program. She called the timing of the payouts a blatant attempt by the Tories to buy votes ahead of October's election. She said it's campaigning on the taxpayer's dime and not being honest that a lot of the money received this week will be taxed back or offset by an increase in taxes due to the elimination of the child tax credit. That credit was worth $ 340 per child, so the extra $ 720 this year from increasing the universal child care benefit is $ 380, which is taxable. In Manitoba, when taxes and the loss of the tax credit are factored in, a person earning the median income of $ 32,000, would end up ahead by $ 180 per child this year, not $ 720. A person earning $ 50,000 would be ahead by $ 130, and a person earning $ 100,000 will end up with $ 67. Ottawa NDP MP Paul Dewar said he thinks the Conservatives are surprised by the backlash. " This clearly did boomerang and backfire on the Conservatives. They thought they could do this without people seeing through it." mia. rabson@ freepress. mb. ca NDP says donations grew after child- benefit backlash By Mia Rabson PIERRE POILIEVRE FIGHTS BACK A15 A_ 09_ Jul- 24- 15_ FP_ 01. indd A7 7/ 23/ 15 7: 28: 22 PM ;