This Nova Scotia Employment Support and Income Assistance (ESIA) Policy Manual will be interesting not only to advocates in the province but those in other areas of the country can use it as a...
Keywords: Government Policy, Welfare, Nova Scotia
Social assistance policy manuals are an important source of detailed information about such questions as initial and ongoing eligibility, the treatment of assets and income, how benefits are...
Keywords: Alberta, Disability, social assistance, social assistance, Welfare, welfare manual, welfare policy, welfare policy, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Québec, Saskatchewan, Yukon, All of Canada
Keywords: income assistance, income support, social assistance, Welfare, Nova Scotia
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
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
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
Under a new welfare program that took effect August 1, 2001, new welfare recipients sentenced to more than 30 days house arrest will lose their benefits (specified in section 15(2) of the new welfare...
Keywords: Welfare, Nova Scotia
