Welfare Incomes
Welfare Incomes is the only report available that estimates total welfare incomes in each province and territory in Canada. It shows welfare incomes for four household types in each jurisdiction - a single employable person, a single person with a disability, a lone parent with a 2-year-old child and a two-parent family with two children aged 10 and 15 - for a total of 52 scenarios. The NCW has calculated similar estimates since 1986. To measure the adequacy of welfare incomes, we use a number of measures including Statistics Canada's low income cut-offs (LICOs), the Market Basket Measure (MBM), median income and average income.
Welfare Incomes
2008
Bulletins
With the recession starting in 2008, more and more Canadians are having to deal with one of the 13 different social assistance systems, discovering how complicated, cumbersome and stigmatizing most are. Bulletins No. 1 through 4 give you a snapshot of the welfare incomes situation in 2008 for 4 types of families, and a fifth document provides detail on the methodology.
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