July 22, 2008
The Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group has published a report, The Rise and Fall of Welfare Time Limits in BC (in PDF), which offers an inside look at what was going on within the...
Keywords: Government Policy, Welfare, British Columbia
May 1, 2008
A story in the Tyee, "A Welfare 'Savings' Boomerang" claims that two recent studies have shown that the BC Liberal's cuts to welfare in 2002 have drastically increased housing and health care costs,...
Keywords: Welfare, British Columbia
April 23, 2008
For two years, researchers from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Raise the Rates Coalition followed BC residents living on welfare. The study, Living on Welfare in BC: Experiences of...
Keywords: Welfare, British Columbia
January 2, 2008
The Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women has a new fact sheet, Women’s experiences of social programs for people with low incomes (in PDF). This fact sheet weaves together the...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Ethnicity and Race, Welfare, Women, All of Canada
December 10, 2007
According to a press release put out by the Yukon Health and Social Services ("Proposed Social Assistance Reforms Announced,") the ministry has reviewed social assistance rates and programs and has...
Keywords: Welfare, Yukon
November 29, 2007
Raise the Rates Coalition has a postcard campaign to urge Premier Gordon Campbell to raise welfare rates, remove barriers to welfare, increase the minimum wage, and build affordable housing. To order...
Keywords: Homelessness, Welfare, British Columbia
November 14, 2007
A story on TheTyee.ca, "'Welfare to Work' Didn't Work," claims that the BC government waited eight months to release a report that contradicts the government's claim that they have been able to move...
Keywords: Welfare, British Columbia
November 14, 2007
As of September 1st, the Government of the Northwest Territories structural and philosophical changes to their income assistance program, including changing their philosophy from one of "last resort...
Keywords: Welfare, Northwest Territories
October 23, 2007
The C.D. Howe Institute has released a report, Reducing Poverty: What has Worked, and What Should Come Next (in PDF) that claims that policies that target employment for the poor, along with improved...
Keywords: Welfare, All of Canada
October 15, 2007
Shelagh Day and Gwen Brodsky have authored a study entitled: Women and the Canada Social Transfer:
Securing the Social Union (in PDF). The report explains how social assistance and legal aid have...
Keywords: Legal Aid, Welfare, Women, All of Canada
July 13, 2007
Go to Ontario Disability Support Program for information and links on how to apply for the program.
Keywords: Disability, Welfare, Ontario
July 11, 2007
Alberta Ministry of Employment, Immigration and Industry is the department responsible for welfare (income support) in Alberta.
Keywords: Alberta, Unemployment, Welfare, Workers' Rights, Government information
July 11, 2007
Find out the 2007 Social Assistance rates from the BC government's website.
Keywords: Welfare, British Columbia, Government information
July 11, 2007
BC Ministry of Employment and Income Assistance - This is the BC government's site for welfare. It has information on how to apply, how much you are eligible for, what you need to apply, and other...
Keywords: Welfare, British Columbia
April 20, 2007
Manitoba has announced a four year program called "Rewarding Work" for welfare recipients. Read more in the CBC article, "Manitoba initiatives aim to break down 'welfare wall'" and in the Manitoba...
Keywords: Disability, Welfare, Manitoba
March 26, 2007
The Community Advocates Network in Halifax has put together a mini manual for people navigating the income assistance program called Social Assistance and You (in PDF). You can download chapters of...
Keywords: Disability, Welfare, Nova Scotia
March 26, 2007
The Ontario government promised that the 2007 Ontario Budget would tackle child poverty. This budget introduces the new Ontario Child Benefit which is suppose to help Ontario families with lower...
Keywords: Children and Youth, Family, Welfare, Ontario
March 8, 2007
Alert PEI, an anti-poverty coalition is asking the government to increase welfare to at least the poverty line. In some cases this is an increase of almost 100%. A single employable person receives $...
Keywords: Welfare, Prince Edward Island
February 25, 2007
The BC Government announced the first increase in welfare rates in 12 years. The ministry Increase to Income Assistant Rates Fact Sheet says the rate increase will take effect on client's March 28th...
Keywords: Welfare, British Columbia
February 17, 2007
The National Council of Welfare has released their report, Solving Poverty: Four cornerstones of a workable national strategy for Canada (in PDF). Solving Poverty’s four cornerstones focus on:...
Keywords: Welfare, All of Canada
January 7, 2007
A little over a year ago the Ontario McGuinty Government cut the Special Diet Policy under which huge numbers of people on welfare were able to obtain a little more money for food each month....
Keywords: Disability, Foodbanks and Food, Welfare, Ontario
November 15, 2006
The Nova Scotia government has announced that 50 individuals a year will be able to receive welfare while attending post secondary education. The program will fund any gaps between an individual's...
Keywords: Education, Welfare, Nova Scotia
November 8, 2006
The Hands Off Campaign has been working to stop the clawback of child benefits for those on social assistance. In Ontario, the provincial government clawbacks the majority of the federal tax benefit...
Keywords: Children and Youth, Organizing, Welfare, Ontario
November 3, 2006
Advocates and many others have been appalled by the abysmally low welfare rates in BC. The Raise the Rates Coalition was launched this spring by some community, faith and advocacy groups to call on...
Keywords: Disability, Organizing, Welfare, British Columbia
November 3, 2006
Ontario has increased the maximum monthly welfare cheque by 2% this month for Ontario Disability Support Program recipients and Ontario Works recipients. The Ontario Social Assistance Rate Increase (...
Keywords: Disability, Organizing, Welfare, Ontario
September 17, 2006
The Canadian Association of Social Workers has released a new report entitled The Declining Health and Well Being of Low Income Women in Canada: A Preventable Tragedy. This CASW report, the fourth in...
Keywords: Health, Welfare, All of Canada
September 5, 2006
In an August 2006 press release, National Council of Welfare press release the National Council of Welfare announced the completion of their report, Welfare Incomes 2005. It shows that, when adjusted...
Keywords: Welfare, All of Canada
July 7, 2006
The BC Ministry of Employment and Income Assistance website has information on employment, welfare, and disability.
Keywords: Unemployment, Welfare, British Columbia, Government information
July 7, 2006
The Status of Women Action Group's (SWAG) Women's Economic Justice Report documents over forty interviews held with women between September 2005 and April 2006 to discuss how women would benefit from...
Keywords: Welfare, Women, British Columbia
July 5, 2006
From the Caledon Institute comes a paper on reforming Canada's income security programs and supportive services for working-age adults, which Caledon has dubbed "adult benefits." The first part of...
Keywords: Unemployment, Welfare, All of Canada
June 11, 2006
As the cost of living in Toronto increased and the amount of income assistance available decreased, many of Ontario's poor were struggling to survive. However, through research, the Ontario Coalition...
Keywords: Foodbanks and Food, Welfare, Ontario
June 8, 2006
Two new reports from the Antigonish Women’s Resource Centre, Every Woman’s Centre, Sydney and the Pictou County Women’s Centre in Nova Scotia have been released. Struggling to Survive: Women on...
Keywords: Welfare, Women, Nova Scotia
June 8, 2006
In early 2005, 15 anti-poverty groups from across BC complained to the Ombudsman about systemic unfairness at the Ministry of Employment and Income Assistance because of widespread concerns about...
Keywords: Welfare, British Columbia
May 4, 2006
The Manitoba government is giving all families who are getting Employment and Income Assistance, the full federal Universal Child Care benefit. This policy is part of several adopted by the Manitoba...
Keywords: Family, Welfare, Manitoba
May 4, 2006
The BC Government amended the Employment and Assistance Act, to include sections regarding the specific punishments for recieving more income assistance than the government gives or for recieving...
Keywords: Unemployment, Welfare, British Columbia
April 1, 2006
Denied Assistance: Closing the Front Door on Welfare in BC (69 page report in PDF), examines why the number of people receiving welfare has plummeted in the wake of changes to eligibility rules and...
Keywords: Welfare, British Columbia
April 1, 2006
On February 1, 2005, the British Columbia Public Interest Advocacy Centre (BCPIAC) wrote to the Ombudsman Office on behalf of a coalition of several non-profit community advocacy agencies situated...
Keywords: Welfare, British Columbia
April 1, 2006
A report by of the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation’s program of analysis for the Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) sponsored by the federal Department of Human Resources and Skills...
Keywords: Education, Welfare, All of Canada
February 23, 2006
In Left Behind: A Comparison of Living Costs and Employment and Assistance Rates in BC, SPARC BC researchers assess the adequacy of income assistance rates in BC. The report clearly demonstrates...
Keywords: Welfare, British Columbia
February 8, 2006
Alberta has agreed to pay more than $100 million to settle a class-action lawsuit with disabled, poor and widowed people who were receiving financial assistance from the province. Read a CBC news...
Keywords: Alberta, Welfare
