The number of social assistance recipients has declined.

Work incentives to encourage recipients of social assistance to find employment included not counting a certain portion of their earnings when calculating social assistance.

Social assistance rates in Yukon have remained unchanged since 1992.

The National Child Benefit Supplement is considered unearned income and deducted from social assistance payments.

New Brunswick continues to pass on the National Child Benefit to its social assistance recipients.

As outlined under Article 9, there was a commitment in the December 2004 Speech from the Throne to raise social assistance rates and a Disability Supplement for certified disabled social assistance clients was introduced in October 2000.

He was charged with fraud and convicted and banned from assistance for life and the Court imposed restitution to be deducted from the remaining social assistance his family received (his wife applied for benefits for her and their three children).

They have no benefits they don't have social security they don't have pension they don't have healthcare none of those things.

The Indian Band authorized the payment of social assistance for the registered Indians and their children but refused to pay social assistance in respect of the non Indian spouses living on the reserve with their Indian spouse.

As a result of this classification, the applicants lost their entitlement to social assistance.

In addition, the President of Pakistan has set up the President's Relief Fund for Tsunami Victims.

The average social assistance benefit went from 593 in 2000 to 667 in 2004.

In the past, the Government of Canada's yearly increase to the NCBS was deducted from social assistance payments.

For the last 10 years, UNRWA has also suffered from a persistent financial shortfall owing to the failure of Member States to commit sufficient funds.

The Court of Appeal accepted that social assistance receipt was a ground of discrimination recognised in the Charter.

Citing Falkiner and its recognition of social assistance receipt as an analogous ground, the Court recognized that there was prima facie discrimination since the government was imposing a burden on social assistance recipients and their families that others did not suffer.

Between January 2000 and December 2004, the number of social assistance recipients fell by 11.9 percent.

The Government increased social assistance rates in 2004 and 2005, which represented a two year, annualized increase of 4.6 million.

The number of people receiving Social Assistance in PEI declined steadily from 1994 to 2004.

In 2004, Norway intended to contribute approximately US 14 million to the UNRWA General Fund.

Today, food aid, our food aid huge engine 80 percent of it is bought in the developing world.

Local remedies

Social assistance

(ii) Community relief

1.67 Relief and Social Services The resource growth over 2004 2005 appropriations is attributable to an increase in cash subsidies to special hardship cases, and an increase in social worker staffing.

Despite low funding, UNRWA had nevertheless managed to continue to provide assistance in the fields of education, health and relief and social services, as well as through its microfinance and microenterprise programme.

The mechanism must be able to disburse funds in a rapid and transparent manner with the primary aim of saving lives and providing immediate humanitarian relief.

The funds and programmes were not relief agencies their purpose was to promote long term development, and it was only in that sense that they could participate in the transition from relief to development.

Emergency relief

(a) Relief Services

The services were offered at a reduced price for the general population and free of charge for parents receiving social assistance benefits.

Table 16 Relief and Social Services Programme Resource Requirements by Activity

Norway unfailingly responded to the Agency's emergency appeals, and in 2003 it had allocated a total of approximately US 3 million for those purposes. Some of those funds were for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of homes in Rafah.

A number of delegates commended UNICEF for increasing cooperation with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and reaffirmed support for the work of UNICEF in the region, particularly in ECD and psychosocial health programmes.

Switzerland intended to continue supporting the Agency's activities both through its contributions to the regular budget and through supplementary payments in response to specific appeals. As in the past, his delegation would actively support the Agency's activities in implementation of various projects on the ground.

UNICEF receives contributions for other resources for approved country programmes and for emergency response.

Exhaustion of local remedies

(a) There are no reasonably available local remedies to provide effective redress, or the local remedies provide no reasonable possibility of such redress

1.39 UNRWA's budget, funded almost entirely by voluntary contributions (cash and in kind), is subject to uncertainties in the timing and value of funding receipts.

In Yukon, the National Child Benefit Supplement (see the Introduction of this report) is counted as income on social assistance budgets.

In Falkiner v. Ontario (Ministry of Community and Social Services), the applicants were single mothers who received social assistance.

In Falkiner v. Ontario (Ministry of Community and Social Services), the applicants were single mothers who received social assistance.

(b) To provide security and support for the distribution of relief supplies and humanitarian relief operations

Advanced Education provides funding to social assistance clients to assist them in obtaining training opportunities not normally covered under the social assistance regulations.

Agencies such as UNICEF and the World Food Programme (WFP) are also playing an important role in the delivery of emergency relief.