The government is cutting a scheduled 3-per-cent welfare increase in half and killing the province’s basic income pilot project ahead of major welfare reforms.
Social Services Minister Lisa MacLeod said Tuesday social assistance rates will rise 1.5 per cent this fall, at least until the Progressive Conservative government has completed a 100-day overhaul of the social assistance program. The Doug Ford administration will also scrap a three-year experiment now playing out in three communities to test out whether no-strings-attached payments boost quality-of-life indicators for Ontarians in dire financial straits, MacLeod said.
The PCs had said during the campaign they would maintain […]
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