Old-age benefits have dramatic effect on poverty for immigrants, study says

Old-age benefits have dramatic effect on poverty for immigrants, study says

A new study says recent immigrants who are seniors when they arrive in this country are far less likely to live in poverty if they have access to federal old age benefits. Government of Canada public pensions web page is shown on Tuesday, January 9, 2018. OTTAWA — Recent immigrants who are seniors when they arrive in this country are far less likely to live in poverty if they have access to federal old-age benefits, Statistics Canada says in a newly released study.

Seniors who immigrated to Canada in the last two decades and received old-age security payments had low-income […]

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