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Ontario welfare reforms roll out this month
Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013
people on social assistance will be able to keep the first $200 they earn before triggering welfare claw-backs…. An estimated 58,000 people on social assistance who have part-time jobs will benefit immediately from the changes… the goal is to encourage more of the 660,000 adults on welfare and disability supports to ease into the workforce… Increases to asset limits for people on Ontario Works… also take effect this month… people applying for welfare will no longer have to drain their bank accounts before becoming eligible for help and those already on welfare will be allowed to save.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Too little money for life’s basics
Sunday, August 25th, 2013
The city and the provincial government expect us who are on Ontario Works and the Ontario Disability Support Program to somehow out of the Basic Needs and Shelter benefits also be able to purchase the following sundries: laundry detergent, fabric bleach, household cleansers, deodorant, bandages, antibacterial cream, sanitary pads, lotion, toilet paper, body soap, shampoo… The cost of sundries takes money away from food and rent.
Tags: budget, housing, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Ontario’s cuts to funds for poor sends miserable message
Thursday, October 18th, 2012
October 18, 2012
Much was revealed when Premier Dalton McGuinty’s government opted to slash funding for the poor while spending at least $230 million on the politically motivated closing of two gas-fired generating plants. The province faces a $14.4-billion deficit but, even in these cash-strapped times, there’s money for what really matters… no one in Ontario deserves help more than those who struggle, day after day, even for basic necessities.
Tags: budget, featured, homelessness, housing, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Homelessness: Ontario’s $21 million cut likely to leave more people without a roof
Thursday, October 18th, 2012
October 18, 2012
A $21 million provincial cut to homelessness prevention funding in Toronto will make it harder for thousands of poor residents to stay out of shelters, residents and community advocates say… The cut takes effect during a period of high local unemployment and high rents, and as “social assistance rates no longer reflect even the most basic costs of living… More than 160,000 people are on the waiting list for affordable housing.
Tags: budget, homelessness, housing, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Decrying social assistance cuts
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
October 12, 2012
The programs help low-income people on Ontario Works and the Ontario Disability Support Program get into housing by providing their first- and last-month rents, help cover hydro arrears or pay for needed repairs and other costs that could allow them to stay in their homes… “When you are homeless or have low income, you tend to have multiple legal problems at once… They are frequently related to housing or social assistance or the interaction between those two.”
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Anti-poverty activists fight to save housing benefit
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
October 09, 201
… the community start-up and maintenance benefit (CSUMB) would be cut off at the end of 2012… It’s an emergency allowance, available every two years… It enables the homeless to move into an apartment. It helps low-income tenants who can’t pay their utility bill keep the lights on; job applicants buy suitable clothes; families fumigate bedbug-infested apartments; and people facing eviction pay their rent arrears.
Tags: budget, homelessness, housing, ideology, mental Health, poverty, standard of living
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The wait in Ontario for social housing can run to 10 years
Monday, August 27th, 2012
August 26, 2012
For the fifth year in a row more Ontario households joined the waiting list for social housing than got off it. Queues across the province have swollen by a shocking 26 per cent since 2007 with some people waiting a decade for affordable housing… For all too many, that amounts to a 10-year sentence of being trapped in poverty as rents they can barely afford gobble up their money, leaving precious little on which to live. In a country as rich as Canada, this is a disgrace.
Tags: budget, homelessness, housing, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Ottawa’s pooled-pension proposal gets thumbs-down
Monday, August 27th, 2012
23 August 2012
Ottawa’s proposed new pension system is little more than the existing RRSP program with a new label, and could actually be a worse option for low-income earners, according to a new analysis by the C.D. Howe Institute… the program needs provincial buy-in to be introduced across the country… Ontario said earlier this year it has concerns about the program and believes a better option might be to expand existing Canada Pension Plan coverage.
Tags: economy, ideology, pensions, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Toronto social housing wait lists growing
Monday, August 27th, 2012
20 August 2012
Households — single people, families and seniors — on waiting lists for affordable housing grew by 2.9 per cent to 156,358 in 2011… “Ultimately, governments, especially the federal and provincial governments, have to realize affordable housing is not something they can download to the City of Toronto and offload to the private housing markets… We have to get governments back to the table as serious partners.”
Tags: economy, homelessness, housing, poverty, standard of living
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Do we care for our vulnerable?
Saturday, July 21st, 2012
July 19, 2012
… cumulative disadvantage, where someone faces more challenges than she or he can reasonably handle, very often leads to despair. The result is that people in poverty struggle on a constant basis with a loss of hope. The unavailability of discretionary benefits will make the cumulative effect of disadvantage and despair that much worse… The challenge for the generally well off is to treat the vulnerable, the poor, those facing cumulative disadvantage, with basic humanity. What type of community are we?
Tags: budget, ideology, mental Health, poverty, standard of living
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