National Council of Welfare (<acronym title="National Council of Welfare">NCW</acronym>) http://www.cnb.gc.ca/h.4m.2@-eng.jsp en Sat, 19 May 2012 09:22:26 -0400 info@ncw-cnb.gc.ca info@ncw-cnb.gc.ca National Council of Welfare (<acronym title="National Council of Welfare">NCW</acronym>) http://www.cnb.gc.ca/images/banners/header-en.gif http://www.cnb.gc.ca/h.4m.2@-eng.jsp Profile of a Federal Fiscal Measure: A Descriptive Study of the Working Income Tax Benefit (WITB) Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.cnb.gc.ca/l.3bd.2t.1.3ls@-eng.jsp?lid=480&guid=20120413 This statistical profile presents an overview of the Working Income Tax Benefit (WITB) elements and recipients in 2008. Using basic customized data information on WITB recipients, provided by the Canada Revenue Agency, it examines who received the WITB in 2008 broken down by those household types used in our Welfare Incomes series and broken down by WITB configurations, since calculations in Quebec, British Columbia and Nunavut differ from the federal model.

]]> 27-28/03/2012 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.cnb.gc.ca/l.3bd.2t.1.3ls@-eng.jsp?lid=491&guid=20120328 For seniors, borrowing on equity means freedom (article: Montreal Gazette)

Ontario budget 2012: Welfare rate freeze really a cut, activists say (article: Toronto Star)

Social workers counting homeless in Vancouver (article: Vancouver Sun)

Healthcare Providers: Ontario budget will spread poverty (article: Canadian National Newspaper)

]]> 24-26/03/2012 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.cnb.gc.ca/l.3bd.2t.1.3ls@-eng.jsp?lid=490&guid=20120326 McGuinty freezes welfare (article: Ottawa Citizen)

McGuinty freezes welfare rates (article: Toronto Sun)

Ontario budget: Child benefit increase being delayed and social assistance ... (article: Toronto Star)

Pension splitting has potential to save seniors thousands of dollars (article: Star Pheonix)

Budget to outline Old Age Security changes (article: Chronicle Herald)

Pension reform idea not likely to hurt low-income seniors  (article: Medicine Hat News)

Poverty reduction strategy moving forward (article: Alberta Daily Herald Tribune)

Seniors struggle to navigate health-care system for support (article: Nanimo Bulletin)

EI workers not surprised Finley complaint failed (article: CBC.ca)

Analyst warns extending retirement age to 67 could hurt provinces' bottom line (article: Canadian Business)

]]> 22-23/03/2012 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.cnb.gc.ca/l.3bd.2t.1.3ls@-eng.jsp?lid=489&guid=20120323 Austerity mania threatens Ontario's poor and disabled (article: Toronto Star)

Seniors' prescription drug costs rise (article: Regina Leader Post)

]]> 19-21/03/2011 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.cnb.gc.ca/l.3bd.2t.1.3ls@-eng.jsp?lid=487&guid=20120321 Keeping seniors at home a key economic goal (article: Montreal Gazette)

1.2 Billion People Live in Poverty - The Rockefeller Foundation and Institute ... (article: Digital Journal)

Social assistance review so far disappoints (article: Hamilton Spectator)

Revelstoke prepares poverty reduction strategy (article: Revelstoke Times Review)

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