Financial assistance Financial assistance includes the state social benefit system and municipal social assistance benefits.

The task of the social assistance benefits is to provide short term support and the benefit is only one form of social assistance.

The number of social assistance recipients has declined.

However, the social assistance benefits constitute the largest share of the local budget expenditures for social assistance activities (see the table).

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

Social assistance services have three main directions financial assistance, social rehabilitation, and social care.

Social assistance rates in Yukon have remained unchanged since 1992.

The Law On Social Assistance structures the social assistance system, making it purposeful and in line with the needs of the community and its notions about social assistance.

These figures do not include the benefits for those foreigners who, up until October 1993, received benefits under the Federal Social Assistance Act (Bundessozialhilfegesetz BSHG) and afterwards under the Act on Benefits for Asylum Seekers.

The four municipal social benefits prescribed by the Law On Social Assistance are to be substituted by one benefit a benefit for ensuring a minimum income.

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

Half of GNP goes to the social sector (including unemployment benefits).

Thus in 1996 the Social Assistance Fund was established, providing the administrative and financial management of social assistance providers, as well as summarizing information about services provided.

The Unemployment Fund administers unemployment benefit, while the Ministry of Social Affairs has overall responsibility

In order to improve the administration of public functions in the area of social assistance, emphasizing the focus on the recipient of the service, a public agency the Social Assistance Fund has been established, which organizes annual public procurement tenders for the provision of social assistance services among legal persons.

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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.

The purpose of the new benefit would be to provide assistance to the poorest families without developing the dependence of these families on social assistance benefits.

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

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

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.

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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.

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

Funds spent for the most important municipal social benefits, in thousands LVL In order to ensure that the system of municipal social assistance benefits is focused on the poorest inhabitants of local governments, to prevent the stratification of the society, social exclusion and to prevent the inheriting of poverty by future generations, in 1999 work was started on changing the system of municipal social assistance benefits.

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.

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

Services provided by various social assistance providers constitute a component of the social assistance system.

Under the Law On Social Assistance the state family benefit is granted to families with children.

The Law On Social Assistance every local government must establish social assistance services on its territory.

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

Under the Law On Social Assistance the family state benefit is granted to persons who bring up a child.

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

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

In its turn, the development of the social assistance policy and its implementation became the basic task of the Social Assistance Department at the MW in the course of the reform.

The procedure for granting and paying the state social benefits to families with children is regulated by the Law On Social Assistance of 26 October 1995.

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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.

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.