The persistence of poverty in Ontario

Total benefit income for those who depend on Ontario Works (OW) and the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) locks nearly 895,000 Ontarians into deep poverty, according to Ontario’s Social Assistance Poverty Gap (PDF), a May 2016 report authored by Kaylie Tiessen, an economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).

Source/more:
https://nowtoronto.com/news/the-persistence-of-poverty-in-ontario/

Ontario may need to spend more to fix faulty social assistance program

TORONTO -- Ontario's minister of community and social services can't say whether the government will have to shell out more money to fix a support payment system that has already cost the province an additional $29 million.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/ontario-may-need-to-spend-more-to-fix-faulty-social-assistance-program-1.2353911

Liberal government ‘truly sorry’ for bungled welfare system rollout

Community and Social Services Minister Helena Jaczek has apologized and admitted that case workers weren’t properly trained on how to use the province’s new problem-riddled welfare caseload software.

http://www.thespec.com/news-story/5598726-liberal-government-truly-sorry-for-bungled-welfare-system-rollout/

"Put food in the Ontario budget" information picket

Ontario is a wealthy society — and Kathleen Wynne is imposing austerity on people who work for low wages and who receive social assistance, rather than raising revenue by making the wealthy pay their fair share.

http://nupge.ca/content/12232/put-food-ontario-budget-information-picket