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Legal Aid Ontario is available to low income individuals and disadvantaged communities for a variety of legal problems, including criminal matters, family disputes, immigration and refugee hearings...
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FROM: Manitoba
Organization: Manitoba Family Services and Consumer Affairs
The program provides financial assistance to those who require help to meet basic personal and family needs. The program aims to assist participants to find and sustain employment, and increase self...
Keywords: applying for disability, Disability, disability assistance, disability benefits
FROM: Manitoba
Organization: MInistry of Housing and Community Development
Manitoba Housing rents affordable and suitable housing to Manitobans in need. Manitoba Housing administers and manages approximately 13,100 rental housing residences across the province and strives...
Keywords: affordable housing, Housing, rental housing, social housing, Tenants' Rights
FROM: All of Canada
Organization: Service Canada
My Service Canada Account provides a single point of access to view and update your information with:
Employment Insurance (EI)
Canada Pension Plan (CPP)
Old Age Security (OAS)
Keywords: Applying For..., Canadian Pension Plan, CPP, Employment Insurance, epass, oas, old age security, Seniors and Elders, service canada, Unemployment, Workers' Rights
FROM: New Brunswick
Organization: Ministry of Social Development
Financial assistance is given to people who have no other income to meet their basic needs of food, clothing and shelter. By law social assistance is the payer of last resort. This means that all...
Keywords: income assistance, social assistance, Welfare
FROM: Newfoundland
Organization: Department of Human Resources, Labour and Employment
Income Support Benefits include basic and non-basic financial supports such as:
Basic Benefits:
Family and Individual Benefit (to assist with expenses such as food, clothing, personal care,...
Keywords: Applying For..., Welfare
FROM: Northwest Territories
Organization: Ministry of Education, Culture and Employment
The Income Assistance Program provides Financial Assistance to Northerners to help meet basic and enhanced needs. The program encourages and supports greater self-reliance to improve the quality of...
Keywords: income assistance, social assistance, Welfare
FROM: Nunavut
Organization: Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.
Nunavut Tunngav is responsible for the implementation of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement. If you are a beneficiary under the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement (NLCA), you may be eligible for their many...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Inuit, Inuk, Seniors and Elders
FROM: All of Canada
Organization: Government of Canada
The Old Age Security pension is a monthly payment available to most Canadians aged 65 or older. You must apply to receive benefits. If you meet the eligibility requirements explained below, you may...
Keywords: Applying For..., Seniors and Elders
FROM: Ontario
The Ontario Child Benefit is is a provincial benefit based on the number of children and family income.
Keywords: Children and Youth, Family
FROM: Ontario
Organization: Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services
The Ontario Ministry says the Ontario Disability Support Program Income Support helps people with disabilities who are in financial need pay for living expenses, like food and housing.
Keywords: Applying For..., Disability, disability, ontario disability support program
FROM: Ontario
Organization: Ontario Government
The Online Application for Social Assistance allows residents of Ontario to find out if they might be eligible, and to start the application process, for various benefit programs.
Keywords: Disability, ODSP, ontario disability support program, Ontario Works, social assistance, Welfare
FROM: Ontario
Organization: Ministry of Community and Social Services
Ontario's social assistance programs help residents of Ontario who are in financial need.
Keywords: social assistance, Welfare
FROM: Ontario
Organization: Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services
The special diet allowance is intended to help people on social assistance who require a special diet because of a medical condition.
Keywords: Applying For..., Disability, Foodbanks and Food, special diet
FROM: Ontario
Organization: Workplace Safety and Insurance Board
The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) promotes workplace health and safety, and provides a workers compensation system for the employers and workers of Ontario. There is extensive...
Keywords: WCB, workers' compensation, Workers' Rights
FROM: British Columbia
Organization: Partners in Hope
The Partners In Hope Recovery Society has an accommodation listings on their website - http://www.partnersinhope.ca/. Volunteers at the society go through all the papers in the Lower Mainland and...
Keywords: Housing, housing listings, rental housing
FROM: Prince Edward Island
Organization: Department of Community Services, Labour and Seniors
The Social Assistance Program helps Islanders meet their basic needs when they are unable to provide for themselves. The program provides benefits on a case-by-case basis to Islanders who meet the...
Keywords: social assistance, Welfare
FROM: Yukon
Organization: Yukon Health and Social Services
Pioneer Utility Grant helps eligible people 65 and over with home heating costs.
Keywords: heating, Seniors and Elders, Utilities
FROM: All of Canada
Organization: Citizenship and Immigration Canada
Resettlement assistance is provided by the Government of Canada to Convention Refugees Abroad and members of the Source Country Class, and in some instances, members of the Country of Asylum Class...
Keywords: Immigrants and Refugees, refugee assistance
FROM: All of Canada
This is the official Court website for the settlement of the In re Residential Schools Class Action Litigation. The Indian residential schools settlement has been approved by the Courts.
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Inuit, residential schools
