It's funny how welfare becomes a topic worthy of d...

2009-02-24T13:59:00.000-05:00

It's funny how welfare becomes a topic worthy of discussion when middle class people start to lose their jobs. Not sure the issue of asset levels is such a big one for the system, it seems to me that most of the folks on welfare are chronically poor without assets anyway,and the new applicants with assets would find they get spent quite quickly.

The rules would allow them - to some extent - to pay off outstanding bills and mortgages, and that would be a way to dispose of them that would still provide a benefit to the person and allow them to qualify for welfare too. Unless of course they applied the rule that says you're ineligible for 3 years if your worker/welfare office manager decides you disposed of assets deliberately to qualify for benefits.

In the end it's all quite subjective, and municipalities like Northumberland are the quickest to assume the worst and cut families off.

For the record there is an appeal system that takes at least a year to resolve any issue.

The single most crucial thing the Province needs to do for people on welfare is raise the rates.
DJO

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