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Estimates of the incomes of welfare recipients in each province and territory for four family types: a single employable person, a single person with a disability, a single parent with one child, and a two-parent family with two children. Also included are comparisons with the poverty lines and average incomes, and data on welfare incomes as far back as 1986.

Press Release: Fix Welfare Financing and End the "Clawback" of Child Benefits!
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• 2004 Report (Revised August 2005) ; please contact us to ORDER a copy.
• Errata (August 2005)
• Errata

• Fact Sheets
• • Estimated Number of People on Welfare by Province and Territory
  • Annual Maximums for the National Child Benefit, 1998-2004
  • Adequacy of 2004 Benefits
  • Estimates of Families Receiving Social Assistance (S.A.) and Whose National Child Benefit Supplement (NCBS) was Still Clawed Back in March 2004
  • Estimates of Children in Families Receiving Social Assistance (S.A.) and Whose National Child Benefit Supplement (NCBS) was Still Clawed Back in March 2004
  • 2004 Welfare Incomes as Percentage of Median Incomes