Income Security: A Roadmap for Change
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Food <strong>Security</strong>: When people have access to suffcient, safe, nutritious and<br />
culturally appropriate food that meets their dietary needs 124 <br />
Guaranteed Annual <strong>Income</strong> System (GAINS): A guaranteed minimum income<br />
provided by the Ontario government to qualifying pensioners A monthly GAINS<br />
benefit is only paid when total income (including Old Age <strong>Security</strong>, Guaranteed<br />
<strong>Income</strong> Supplement and all other sources of income) falls below the annual level<br />
guaranteed by the province 125 <br />
Guaranteed <strong>Income</strong> Supplement (GIS): A monthly non-taxable benefit provided<br />
by the federal government to Old Age <strong>Security</strong> (OAS) pension recipients who have<br />
a low income and are living in Canada 126 <br />
Healthy Smiles Ontario (HSO): An Ontario government dental program that<br />
provides free preventive, routine and emergency dental services <strong>for</strong> children and<br />
youth 17 years old and under from low-income households 127 <br />
<strong>Income</strong> <strong>Security</strong> System: The broad “safety net” of programs delivered by<br />
federal, provincial or municipal governments aimed at addressing low-income<br />
and related needs 128 <br />
124 Please see: https://www.ontario.ca/page/building-ontarios-first-food-securitystrategy<br />
125 For more in<strong>for</strong>mation on GAINS please see: http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/<br />
credit/gains/<br />
126 For more about the GIS please see: https://www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/<br />
publicpensions/cpp/old-age-security/guaranteed-income-supplementhtml<br />
127 For more in<strong>for</strong>mation on HSO please see: https://wwwontarioca/page/getdental-care<br />
128 This is the definition used during discussion by the <strong>Income</strong> <strong>Security</strong> Re<strong>for</strong>m<br />
Working Group<br />
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