Sunday, December 09, 2007

Welfare Recepients Not The Only Victims......

.....when it comes to trying to make life a little more comfortable. Talk to seniors who go back to work to supplement their pensions........

Remove bricks from welfare wall
TheStar.com - comment - Remove bricks from welfare wall

December 08, 2007
You would think that taxpayers who foot the bill for welfare would want the government to do everything in its power to help people on welfare to break free from the system and become self-sufficient.

Yet in many ways, the government puts a massive wall in the way of those trying to get off welfare. What that wall consists of is a tangle of rules and regulations that can leave welfare recipients worse off if they try to make the transition from welfare to work or if they try to better themselves by getting an education.

For example, if social assistance recipients work part-time to supplement their meagre incomes, welfare deducts 50 cents of every dollar they earn. If they live in public housing, their subsidized rent goes up 30 cents for every dollar earned. The remaining 20 cents is not even enough to cover work expenses such as public transit, child care, clothing and payroll deductions like the Canada Pension Plan.

When added up, these deductions and extra work-related costs can be more than 100 per cent of what a person earned.

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The Skinny said...

absolutely, no doubt McGuinty's government is inept at helping to build a system that works. I recall when my sister's husband beat the shit out of her and she had to take her 2 kids under 3 and survive on welfare (mother's allowance), it was a good thing she was able to take advantage of the training programs in place by the NDP, because she is now gainfully employed as a result and has not been on welfare for many many years. She is still employed in the same industry she was trained in.

So I imagine you were just as vocal about Harris' inept handling of welfare as you are McGuinty. Right? Because as far as I see it, and any reasonable person, they both are failing at dealing with this.

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