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In what critics are calling the “nastiest” attack on children, the Ford government is eliminating a benefit that helps families on welfare feed and clothe their kids.
The cut, buried in April’s provincial budget, will end the Transition Child Benefit which provides up to $230 per month, per child in families on welfare who are not receiving the Ontario and Canada child benefits, such as refugee claimants.
Eritrean refugee claimant Samu Abdel with her three sons at Sojourn House which operates a shelter and transitional housing in downtown Toronto. The single mother, who fled her war-torn homeland in 2017, has been relying on the Transition Child Benefit of $230 per child, per month to pay for food, diapers and other items for her children while she awaits her refugee hearing in July. Abdel doesn't know how she would survive without the money and fears for other families if the Ford government eliminates the benefit Nov. 1. (TORONTO STAR)
The move, scheduled to take effect Nov. 1, will affect an average of 16,000 children a month province-wide, according to the government.
“To me, this is the nastiest cut,” said Toronto Councillor Shelley Carroll, a member of the city’s economic and community development committee, responsible for the local welfare system.
It is part of an estimated $177 million in provincial budget cuts to the city that threaten child care subsidies, school nutrition programs and free dental care for low-income children, among others services.
In what critics are calling the “nastiest” attack on children, the Ford government is eliminating a benefit that helps families on welfare feed and clothe their kids.
The cut, buried in April’s provincial budget, will end the Transition Child Benefit which provides up to $230 per month, per child in families on welfare who are not receiving the Ontario and Canada child benefits, such as refugee claimants.
Eritrean refugee claimant Samu Abdel with her three sons at Sojourn House which operates a shelter and transitional housing in downtown Toronto. The single mother, who fled her war-torn homeland in 2017, has been relying on the Transition Child Benefit of $230 per child, per month to pay for food, diapers and other items for her children while she awaits her refugee hearing in July. Abdel doesn't know how she would survive without the money and fears for other families if the Ford government eliminates the benefit Nov. 1. (TORONTO STAR)
The move, scheduled to take effect Nov. 1, will affect an average of 16,000 children a month province-wide, according to the government.
“To me, this is the nastiest cut,” said Toronto Councillor Shelley Carroll, a member of the city’s economic and community development committee, responsible for the local welfare system.
It is part of an estimated $177 million in provincial budget cuts to the city that threaten child care subsidies, school nutrition programs and free dental care for low-income children, among others services.
