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Fumbling at the top
Sunday, May 1st, 2016
Community and Social Services Minister Helena Jaczek, was warned directly that there were “significant” problems with the system before it was launched back in November, 2014. Nonetheless, the government went ahead anyway – a move that eventually cost $52 million in fixes on top of the system’s $240 million price tag… This is the kind of thing that voters remember.
Tags: budget, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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Canada Social Report – Social Assistance Summaries, 2015 edition
Monday, March 7th, 2016
With the help of provincial and territorial government contacts from across the country, we have updated the Social Assistance Summaries with 2015 data. Individual reports from the provinces and territories are now ready for download… Improving access to capital for Canada’s First Nation communities… Provincial/Territorial and Federal Policy Monitors
Tags: budget, ideology, Indigenous, poverty, standard of living
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Fix for Ontario’s disability program is long overdue
Monday, February 22nd, 2016
… doctors won’t have to fill out 21-page application forms again every time a recipient’s case comes up for a simple review. Nor will they have to re-do everything from psychological assessments to x-rays to back it up. That should provide savings in both medical tests and doctors’ time. It should also provide savings in legal aid, since so many applicants currently need help on the complicated review documents and appeals.
Tags: disabilities, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, pensions, poverty, standard of living
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The ugly truth: Many Canadians didn’t have enough food this year
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2015
Over 4 million Canadians, including 1.15 million children experience some level of food insecurity… adults in more severely food-insecure households are more likely to report chronic health conditions as well as receive diagnoses of multiple health conditions… total healthcare costs – including inpatient hospital care, emergency department visits, physician services, same-day surgeries and home care services – increase significantly with the level of household food insecurity.
Tags: featured, Health, housing, ideology, mental Health, standard of living
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Welfare in Canada, 2014
Tuesday, December 8th, 2015
In 2014, welfare incomes for single employable households ranged from 38.2 percent of the after-tax poverty line in Manitoba to a ‘high’ of 64.7 percent in Newfoundland and Labrador. Most of the other jurisdictions cluster around the lower rate. Welfare incomes for single persons with disabilities, while low, were slightly higher, ranging from 49.6 percent of the poverty line in Alberta to 69.9 percent in Ontario.
Tags: budget, disabilities, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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The Canada Social Report… So Far
Thursday, November 26th, 2015
The Canada Social Report provides information that includes, but goes well beyond, Census-based data. The Welfare Incomes, Social Assistance Summaries, Social Policy Record and Minimum Wage sections are prime examples. This paper describes the current content of the Canada Social Report… It is a resource for the entire social sector – to give all of us a strong voice and a powerful evidence base for informed policy conversations and the formulation of intelligent policy solutions.
Tags: economy, featured, Health, homelessness, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Ontario government botches rollout of welfare technology
Sunday, October 25th, 2015
… a pricetag that has already swelled by 20 per cent; the fact that department has fumbled the implementation of programs by two different suppliers; reports from local caseworkers that the system still has serious deficiencies – suggest the changeover was poorly planned and executed… The 566,800 Ontarians who depend on social assistance are the province’s most vulnerable residents. More than half have disabilities. It is bad enough that the government doesn’t provide enough financial support to meet their basic needs; to subject them to needless bureaucratic misery is just heartless.
Tags: budget, disabilities, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Ontario’s disastrous computer roll-out will trouble welfare rolls for months to come
Thursday, July 2nd, 2015
The consultants reported at the end of April that the government needed a major, but major, recovery plan, practically a do-over. They identified 57 high-priority fixes, just to get started with… They called it an “integrated transition plan”… The plan is still not done… The people who use SAMS are now at least familiar with its failings… But it’s still inefficient at basic tasks like changing the address on a welfare recipient’s file, which drives workers nuts.
Tags: budget, disabilities, poverty, standard of living
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Ontario Works? I’m not so sure
Friday, June 12th, 2015
… even with seasoned help, there were weeks and weeks of frustration: missing file numbers, without which nothing could be done; messages which were left and not returned; workers who… left on vacation… I am disgusted by this province which, on our behalf, punishes those it should help… I want: A single point of contact for ODSP and OW, so that someone in trouble can find out the shortest route to help; workers who will answer questions with useful and timely information
Tags: disabilities, featured, ideology, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Holding on to disability benefits an unfair struggle
Friday, May 29th, 2015
The purpose of the Ontario Disability Support Program is to provide income to these individuals so they can survive. It’s not a lot of money, and the benefits are notoriously difficult to obtain, but it serves as a crucial lifeline for many people in this province. But even this is now being threatened for countless people by a overcomplicated bureaucratic process of medical reviews that is leaving many in the lurch.
Tags: disabilities, Health, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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