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Ontario Should Streamline Path Off Welfare With More Carrot, Less Stick
Thursday, July 30th, 2020
… the province of Ontario has the worst dependency rate on social assistance programs in Canada… Ontario Works (OW) and the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) – have been characterized by high costs and poor recipient outcomes. With about one million Ontarians receiving social assistance benefits… the average dependency duration on OW has substantially increased from 19 months in 2009 to 35 months in 2018.
Tags: budget, disabilities, economy, featured, ideology, participation, poverty
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Ontario Should Streamline Path Off Welfare With More Carrot, Less Stick
Friday, June 5th, 2020
The report recommends: Reducing the cost of working through less punitive benefit claw-back rates; and higher exemptions for earned employment income while on the program… Ensuring appropriate work requirements and support… Placing supplemental benefits outside social assistance… Shifting the focus in disability support programs from the inability to work to the ability to work.
Tags: economy, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, standard of living
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