Welfare and Social Assistance
Okanagan Advocacy and Resource Society
April 23, 2008 - 11:31amLocation
PovNet
April 23, 2008 - 9:33amLocation
Raise the Rates
April 21, 2008 - 7:53pmLocation
Selected welfare-related links
March 26, 2008 - 10:38pmSelected welfare-related links from the National Council of Welfare:
- Number of People on Welfare, March 1995 to March 2005 (PDF file - 133K, 1 page)
- broken down by year and by province/territory - Profiles of Welfare: Myths and Realities (Spring 1998)
- large statistical collection covering twenty years of data, examining variables like family types, reasons for assistance, age, education, duration of spells on assistance, housing and more.
From Statistics Canada:
- Social Assistance by Province, 1993-2003 (PDF file - 67K, 7 pages)
November 17, 2004 - Feature article in the November 2004 issue of
The Canadian Economic Observer
"Social assistance [dependency] rates fell in every province between 1993 and 2003, but nowhere was the decline more dramatic than in Alberta and Ontario, according to a new report [which] looked at the drop in people receiving social assistance in the 1990s, with particular emphasis on entry and exit rates by family type. This paper extends the results by province to 2003. One of the trade-offs of more timely data is the loss of detail on whether the changes originate through entry or exit and the type of family affected. The gain, however, is a comparison of which provinces have experienced the largest changes in social assistance among their population, and which had the highest and lowest rates of welfare use in 2003."
Where can I find the latest welfare statistics for one jurisdiction or for all of Canada?
March 26, 2008 - 10:37pmSocial Assistance Statistical Report: 2005
August 2006 (Second edition)
Report prepared by:
Federal-Provincial-Territorial Directors of Income Support
NOTE: Chapter Two of the report is a five-page descriptive overview of social assistance in Canada in 2005. It provides information about the federal contributions to provincial, territorial and municipal social assistance under the Canada Assistance Plan (1996-1996), the Canada Health and Social transfer (1996-2004) and the Canada Social Transfer (2004 to date).
Other chapters provide, for each province and territory, some general information of eligibility (including asset and income exemption levels) and benefits, as well as an impressive number of statistical tables, graphs and charts providing numbers of cases and beneficiaries (time series statistics going back as far as the mid-1990s, depending on the jurisdiction), profile information (age/education/sex of household head, cases by reason for assistance) and even (for most jurisdictions) the percentage of households reporting income.
Complete report (PDF, 921K, 174 pages)
Link to the first edition of this report:
Source:
Social Policy
[ Human Resources and Social Development Canada ]
Where can I find welfare rates for one jurisdiction or for all of Canada?
March 26, 2008 - 2:13pm- National Council of Welfare Publications - includes links to other editions of Welfare Incomes, along with other reports produced by the National Council of Welfare, on welfare and other related topics.
- Welfare Incomes 2005 (PDF file - 1.4MB, 116 pages)
August 2006
"Welfare Incomes 2005 estimates total welfare incomes for four types of households in each province and territory, for a total of 52 scenarios. The four household types we use are a single employable person, a single person with a disability, a lone-parent with a 2-year-old child, and a two-parent family with two children aged 10 and 15. The National Council of Welfare has published similar estimates since 1986." - FACT SHEETS from Welfare Incomes 2005
- Welfare Incomes by Province and Territory, Peak Year and 2005
- Welfare Incomes by Household Type: Losses, Peak Year to 2005
- Welfare Incomes Over Time: 1986 to 2005 by Province and Territory
- Welfare Incomes 2005 by Province and Territory and Type of Household
- Welfare Incomes 2005 by Type of Household and Province/Territory (graph)
- Adequacy of 2005 Welfare Incomes by Province
- The Clawback of the National Child Benefit Supplement
- Changes in Welfare Incomes for Families with Children, 1997 to 2005 (graph)
- Methodology Used for Welfare Incomes
- Number of People on Welfare, March 1995 to March 2005(PDF file - 133K, 1 page)
