Welfare in Canada, 2021 - Jennefer Laidley and Mohy Tabbara

Similar to the situation in the provinces, the main reason for the decline of the incomes of so many households is the reduction or elimination of pandemic-related supports paired with the stagnating value of income supports from territorial governments. [...] Adequacy of welfare incomes: Comparisons of the welfare incomes of each household with all four poverty and low-income thresholds in the provinces, and with the poverty thresholds in two of the territories. [...] Households with children had comparable income-to-threshold levels: 64 per cent of the LIM and 90 per cent of the LICO for the single parent with one child, and 63 per cent of the LIM and 80 per cent of the LICO for the couple with two children. [...] The trendlines indicate changes in the level of poverty of the households within the years in which the bases are applied. [...] Unlike the unattached single considered employable, the welfare income of the unattached single with a disability receiving BFE benefits was a full nine percentage points lower relative to the poverty line at the end of the time series than at the beginning.