Welfare Incomes: Research and Publications

The Government of Manitoba has provided the National Council of Welfare with new information to correct that which was previously provided. Test 1 GA Events Test 2 GA Events

Welfare Incomes is a regular report on the welfare rates in each province and territory in Canada. This report estimates welfare incomes for 1997 and 1998 for four types of households. The federal government increased its spending on child benefits by $850 million a year with the launch of the Canada Child Tax Benefit on July 1, 1998. Most provincial and territorial governments clawed back the in...

The report is a gold mine of statistical information about welfare in Canada in the 1990s which has never appeared in print before. The report presents the data by family type, reasons for assistance, length of current spell on welfare, age, level of education, other sources of income and housing arrangements.

Welfare Incomes 1996 is the ninth in a series of reports that tracks the annual incomes of four typical welfare households. Most people living on welfare were even poorer in 1996 than the people living on welfare in 1986. People on welfare are invariably poor, but the depth of poverty is getting worse. Single employable people on welfare fared the worst in 1996, with incomes as low as one-fifth o...

An update of Welfare in Canada: The Tangled Safety Net and Welfare Reform. The report focuses on changes in provincial and territorial welfare policies from 1992 through mid-1997.

This report is the eighth of its kind by the National Council of Welfare. It estimates welfare incomes for the year 1995 for four types of households. All eight reports show that welfare incomes in all parts of Canada fall well below the poverty line. And yet, with very few exceptions, welfare benefits were frozen or decreased during 1995 for all household types covered in this report throughout C...

Welfare Incomes 1994 is the seventh in a series of reports that tracks the annual incomes of four typical welfare households. Many welfare recipients saw their incomes slump in 1994 as governments faced continuing pressures to cut spending.

On October 5, 1994, the Minister of Human Resources Development Canada, Lloyd Axworthy, tabled in Parliament a discussion paper entitled "Improving Social Security in Canada". The paper put forward a number of options for reforming social programs for Canadians under the age of 65 and invited comments to help the federal government decide how to proceed. This report by the National Council of Wel...

Welfare Incomes 1993 is the sixth in a series of reports that tracks the annual incomes of four typical welfare households. Welfare recipients in many parts of Canada saw their purchasing power fall in 1993. Welfare Incomes 1993 shows that welfare rates in a number of provinces and Yukon failed to keep pace with increases in the cost of living between 1992 and 1993, and rates actually went down i...

How do our social safety nets work? Who are the people receiving welfare? Have work-for-welfare programs in the United States been successful? These are some of the questions answered in a series of five background papers. The papers are intended to stimulate public discussion about the federal government's plans for social security reform. First Thoughts About Reforming Social Programs: Unemplo...

Incentives and Disincentives to Work is an attempt by the National Council of Welfare to shed light on issues that seem destined to be at the centre of the public policy stage for the rest of the decade. The core of the report is an analysis of the labour market realities facing recipients of welfare and unemployment insurance and detailed calculations of the financial incentives and disincentiv...

Welfare Incomes 1992 is the fifth in a series of reports that estimates incomes of typical welfare households in different parts of the country. Benefits paid by provincial and territorial governments were up in real terms between 1991 and 1992 for most household types in most jurisdictions, but the increases were generally modest.

This report describes the welfare reforms instituted by provincial and territorial governments during the last several years. Some of the reforms are modest, while others reflect fundamental shifts in direction. Whether large or small, most of the changes were made within the welfare system and left larger issues unresolved. The National Council of Welfare believes it is time these larger issues ...

This report is the fourth of its kind by the National Council of Welfare. It estimates welfare incomes in 1991 for four types of households. All four reports show that welfare incomes in all parts of Canada fall well below the poverty line. Welfare Incomes 1991 shows explicitly that some welfare recipients have seen their benefits decline in value over the years because of the lack of automatic c...

This report is the third of its kind by the National Council of Welfare. It estimates welfare incomes for the year 1990 for four types of households: a single employable person a single person with a disability a single-parent family with a child aged two a two-parent family with two children aged ten and 15.