Maytree is committed to advancing systemic solutions to poverty and strengthening civic communities across Canada. Judy and Alan Broadbent established Maytree in 1982 to find and advance solutions to poverty.
Maytree’s Annual Social Assistance Summaries provides you with data on how many people were receiving social assistance and how numbers changed over time and The Welfare in Canada reports look at the total incomes available to those relying on social assistance (often called “welfare”), taking into account tax credits and other benefits along with social assistance itself. The reports look at four different household types for each province and territory. Established by the Caledon Institute of Social Policy, Welfare in Canada is a continuation of the Welfare Incomes series originally published by the National Council of Welfare, based on the same approach
Learn more about:
• The variation of welfare incomes across Canada
• The components of welfare incomes in each province and territory
• Long-term changes in welfare incomes in each province and territory
• The adequacy of welfare incomes in each province compared to poverty and
low-income thresholds
• The adequacy of welfare incomes in two territories compared to newly
finalized Northern poverty thresholds
• Long-term changes in the adequacy of welfare incomes in each province
• Asset and earned income levels as they relate to eligibility for social
assistance
• Indexation of social assistance benefits, other benefits, and tax credits in
each jurisdiction, and Welfare in Canada
• A breakdown of cost-of-living and shelter benefits for social assistance
programs.