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 more people off welfare into better lives. The report, Outcomes of those Leaving Assistance (in PDF) tracks the tax returns of people who were no longer accessing welfare to determine how many were working. The report shows that since 2002 there was no increase of welfare recipients who returned to work and there was a significant decrease in work for people with persistent barriers to employment.