Bill to establish welfare rates based on cost of living introduced

“Over nine hundred thousand people in this province rely on Ontario Works or ODSP, but more than half of these families do not have enough to eat,” Miller said. “Children are going to school hungry. It has become impossible for the poorest people in this province to make ends meet.”

Sourc/more:

https://www.baytoday.ca/local-news/bill-to-establish-welfare-rates-based-on-cost-of-living-introduced-427193

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/

Welfare recipients treated like guinea pigs: Goar

Ontario government’s ‘improvement’ to its disability program hurts those who are trying hardest

If everything had gone according to plan, the Ontario government would be rolling out a new Employment-Related Benefit for people with disabilities on April 1. 

Things did not go as planned, of course.


More/source: http://www.mississauga.com/opinion-story/5535047-welfare-recipients-treated-like-guinea-pigs-goar/