Wednesday, January 8, 2020
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Social action groups seek welfare reform

An alliance of social welfare advocates in Quebec are asking Quebec’s Labour, Employment and Social solidarity Minister Jean Boulet to reform the rules that make it harder for welfare recipients to get by. Specifically, the group wants the social assistance system to stop penalizing claimants who are in the process of reintegrating into the labour market, with the first barrier to employment identified as the amount of social assistance cheques. “At $669 per month for a single person, the amount of the social assistance cheque is clearly insufficient to allow for the search for work,” says community organizer Sheetal Pathak. Read More