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The report Welfare Incomes, 2006 and 2007 presents current and long-term statistics on welfare incomes, which include social assistance as well as federal child-related and other benefits, for 4 household types in Canada’s 13 provinces and territories. The household types are: single employable person; single person with a disability; lone parent with a 2 year-old child; a couple with two children, aged 10 and 15. The report also highlights the maze of rules that vary across the country. This report contains good news, bad news, some troubling unknowns as well as recommendations for all orders of government.

Press release: “Poverty line is being cracked, but not broken. Cross-Canada action needed as economy worsens, National Council of Welfare says”
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• Speeches and Photos
  • John Rook (Chairperson) and Glen Shepherd (porte-parole francophone) (PDF)
  • Lone mothers from the Women Moving Forward program in Toronto (PDF)
• Errata (February 2009) (PDF)
• Download the entire report ( PDF); please contact us to ORDER a copy.
  OR individual chapters (PDF)
  
  
  • Table of Contents
  • Message from the Chairperson
  • Patterns and Trends
  • Chapter 1: What is Welfare?
  • Chapter 2: Adequacy of Welfare Incomes
  • Chapter 3: Welfare Incomes Over Time
  • Chapter 4: Welfare Incomes and Child Benefits
  • Chapter 5: Total Welfare Incomes and Poverty Over Time
  • Concluding Thoughts
  • Appendices
  • About the NCW
• Fact Sheets
  
  
  • 2007 Provincial Welfare Rates Compared to the MBM