By Sabrina Almeida On Monday, Premier Wynne launched a basic income pilot plan covering 4,000 individuals to be tested in Hamilton, Lindsay and Thunder Bay. The initiative aimed at reducing poverty, will provide or supplement the incomes of eligible individuals and couples with no strings attached.
Recipients will however lose any other welfare or provincial payments they currently receive.
To be eligible, an individual must earn less than $34,000 and couples less than $48,000 a year. (Which could soon include the entire part-time work industry.) The maximum basic subsidy an individual can receive is $16,989 for singles and $24,027 for couples, […]
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