by I’ve just written a blog post about social assistance in Canada. Points raised in the blog post include the following: -Social assistance has two contradictory objectives: 1) to give people enough money to live on; and 2) to not give people enough money to live on. -Very few immigrants receive social assistance (relative to the general population). -Several Canadian provinces have seen a rise in persons with disabilities receiving social assistance. -The inadequacy in social assistance coverage and benefit levels puts a strain on other parts of Canada’s social welfare system (e.g., social housing). -When a person applies to receive social assistance but is denied, no systematic effort is made to track what happens to that person. -Recent research suggests that a modest increase in social
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I’ve just written a blog post about social assistance in Canada. Points raised in the blog post include the following:
-Social assistance has two contradictory objectives: 1) to give people enough money to live on; and 2) to not give people enough money to live on.
-Very few immigrants receive social assistance (relative to the general population).
-Several Canadian provinces have seen a rise in persons with disabilities receiving social assistance.
-The inadequacy in social assistance coverage and benefit levels puts a strain on other parts of Canada’s social welfare system (e.g., social housing).
-When a person applies to receive social assistance but is denied, no systematic effort is made to track what happens to that person.
-Recent research suggests that a modest increase in social assistance benefit levels would likely reduce demand for emergency shelter beds.
The full blog post is available at this link.
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