119 search results for Income insecurity and benefits
Recommendation 28: x. transition supports for families who have just had a child apprehended or returned
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- Ableism ,
- Classism ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Economic inequality ,
- Education and employment ,
- Health, wellness and services ,
- Housing and homelessness ,
- Income insecurity and benefits ,
- Indigenous children and youth in care ,
- Poverty ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Public services ,
- Racism
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Recommendation 24: Work with industry to ensure lower income families and youth have access to technology (both hardware and Internet access) so that they are able to apply for financial assistance and access learning opportunities and other supports.
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Recommendation 11: With the advice and direction of youth in and from government care, the provincial government should develop, resource, and maintain a universal and comprehensive social safety net dedicated to the specific needs and circumstances of the approximately 1,000 youth who ‘age out’ of care annually and all young adults who have spent time in the care system, without age and activity eligibility criteria and length-of-care requirements.
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Recommendation 20: Tie rent control to the unit to remove the incentive for evictions of current tenants to raise the rent for new tenants.
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Recommendation 2: This federal income security initiative would generate savings for provinces, potentially $2 to $3 billion overall. It would then free up funding for provinces as the new basic income program would replace provincial/territorial social assistance for most working-age persons with severe disabilities. This amount is large enough to justify an investment and accountability framework that would enable provinces and territories to reallocate funds to urgently needed personal supports as well as home-based and community services for those with disabilities.
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Recommendation 170: There is an urgent requirement for comprehensive and informed Gender/Diversity Analysis as well as an equality analysis of [restorative justice issues]. This particular implications of these initiatives for ethnic/cultural communities and gay/lesbians/bisexuals should be identified and reviewed for the express purpose of ensuring these initiatives do not compromise the safety of members of these communities and in fact serve these communities well. As well, the implications of these initiatives for poor people, elderly people, and for people with disabilities have yet to be considered. (p.47)
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Recommendation 4: The provincial government should significantly raise income and disability assistance rates to bring total welfare incomes up to the CFLIM after-tax poverty thresholds and index them to inflation.
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Recommendation 3: The provincial government should significantly raise income and disability assistance rates to bring them in line with actual living expenses and index them to inflation.
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Recommendation 5: The provincial government should significantly raise income and disability assistance rates to bring them in line with actual living expenses and index them to inflation.
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Recommendation 12: The provincial government should review and enhance supports to grandparents raising grandchildren and other kinship care providers. The federal government should allow grandparents on CPP Disability who are raising their grandchildren to continue to receive the CPP children’s benefit after they turn 65 and remove administrative barriers to receiving the Canada Child Benefit for kinship care providers.
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