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Python 2, 52 bytes

a=b=input()
while len(set(str(a)))!=1:a+=1
print a-b

Python 2 has several tricks that make this shorter. For example, input is numeric, so we don't need to cast to int. (-5 bytes) We also don't need to put parenthesis around the a-b (-1 byte)

Use this script to verify all test cases:

def f(i):
    a=b=i
    while len(set(str(a)))!=1:a+=1
    return a-b

inputs = [8, 100, 113, 87654321, 42, 20000, 11132]
outputs = [0, 11, 109, 1234567, 2, 2222, 11090]

for i in range(len(inputs)):
    print(f(inputs[i]) == outputs[i])

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