Transitions Revisited [electronic Resource] : Implementing the Vision
Description:... Transitions called for: The Liberal and NDP governments • achievement of its vision as the fifth of five implemented a number of recommendations from stages of reform both Transitions and the subsequent reports of the Minister's Advisory Group chaired by • enhancements to the existing system in the Carleton University professor Allan Moscovitch. [...] The mature systems in Nova Scotia to be housed in the two separate programs known and Newfoundland represent the endgame of the as the Canada Child Tax Benefit (CCTB) and NCB initiative: the National Child Benefit Supplement (NCBS). [...] By discouraging offsets, the federal ernment is asking provinces that have not yet government has, in effect, promoted the freezing undertaken restructuring to contribute much of of the funds a province needs for restructuring at the money needed to bring the NCB initiative to the pre-July 2003 levels. [...] Meanwhile, supports to low-wage workers outside of the welfare sys- Continually eroding benefit rates are tem are so meagre that all the welfare cuts in the accompanied by high levels of scrutiny into the world cannot seem to make the low end of the lifestyles of recipients through webs of restrictive labour market sufficiently attractive to make the rules and relentless public preoccupation with [...] Caledon Institute of Social Policy OCCS could be redesigned for children up to the benefits for children under age 7 would have to age of 18, harmonized with the NCBS rules and be reduced in order to pay for the extension of re-branded as a Child Benefit for low-income the program to children up to 18 years of age.
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