HALIFAX — A top Nova Scotia bureaucrat says income-assistance recipients will be able to keep more of what they earn if they work, starting in 2019-20.
Lynn Hartwell, the deputy minister of community services, told the legislature’s public accounts committee Wednesday that planned changes would see the amount of money recipients who work are allowed to keep rise to $250 from $150.
She said the amount they can keep beyond that threshold would also increase from 30 per cent to 75 per cent for anything earned between $250 and $500."The average amount of wages that they earn is $500. So once […]
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