Canada Social Report - Welfare in Canada, 2015 - Anne Tweddle, Ken Battle and Sherri Torjman

In 2015, the annual maximum earnings exemption for a single person with a disability is the base amount ($800) times the number of months remaining in the year. [...] By the end of the period in 2015, they were eligible for welfare incomes of $11,188 – the same amount paid to a single employable person. [...] Welfare Incomes over time The figures in this series track total welfare incomes for the period 1986 to 2015 for each of the four illustrative family types. [...] Although welfare incomes increased in 2014 and 2015, the 2015 amount of $10,940 was still below the level at the beginning of the period ($11,199). [...] The decrease in incomes for the two family types between 2014 and 2015 is due to a decrease in the cost of fuel in the NWT.