Income Security: A Roadmap for Change

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• Studies also show that adult-onset diabetes and heart disease are far more common amongst low-income Canadians 47 . The poorest one-fifth of Canadians had more than double the rate of diabetes and heart disease when compared to the richest 20%, and a 60% greater rate of two or more chronic health conditions 48 • The percentage of adults reporting that their health is fair or poor declines substantially as you move from low- to high-income earners For Indigenous adults in Ontario, 34% of low-income earners report fair or poor health compared to 14% of high-income earners 49 Social and economic circumstances contribute to 50% of a person’s overall health status with lowincome groups showing worse outcomes in 20 of 34 health status indicators 50 • Today’s jobs require highly literate workers who can read and write and also possess problem-solving, decision-making, critical-thinking and organizational skills Literacy levels are connected to pressing social and economic issues, including unemployment, poverty, homelessness, poor health, incarceration, social assistance reliance and poor outcomes for children 51 • Evidence shows that children in low-income families are 50% less likely to participate in organized sports, arts and cultural activities than children in high-income families Barriers to participation include user fees, equipment costs, lack of transportation, family support, awareness of opportunities, isolation, inadequate or no facilities in their communities and a lack of safe places to play 52 47 From Mikkonen and Raphael, Social Determinants of Health – The Canadian Facts Please see: http://www.thecanadianfacts.org/The_Canadian_Facts.pdf pg 12 48 Lightman et al, Poverty Is Making Us Sick: A Comprehensive Survey of Income and Health in Canada, December 2008 Please see: http://wwwwellesleyinstitutecom/ wp-content/uploads/2011/11/povertyismakingussickpdf 49 Source: Health Inequalities and Social Determinants of Aboriginal Peoples’ Health, Table 9 https://wwwccnsa-nccahca/docs/determinants/RPT-HealthInequalities Reading-Wien-ENpdf pg 49 50 Please see: http://wwwtorontoca/legdocs/mmis/2015/hl/bgrd/ backgroundfile-79096.pdf 51 Source: Ontario Native Literacy Coalition (2017) http://onlcca/literacy-facts/ 52 Source: https://lin.ca/sites/default/files/attachments/ EverybodyGetstoPlayPositionPaperpdf pg 1–2 46 Income Security: A Roadmap for Change
• Many women who have experienced spousal violence also experience higher daily stress levels and related impacts 53% of women victimized in the preceding 12 months by a spouse stated that most of their days were “quite a bit or extremely stressful”, which is significantly higher than the proportion of women victimized by someone else (41%) and the proportion of women not victimized (23%) 53 • The implications of not completing high school in Canada are enormous, with both direct and indirect cost impacts on health, social services, education, employment, criminality and economic productivity 54 • 36% of off-reserve Indigenous children under the age of six live in poverty compared to 19 per cent of non-Indigenous children 55 6. Systemic racism and discrimination are contributing to entrenched inequity Consider this: • Indigenous youth from remote northern communities do not have any options but to relocate to a municipality or an urban centre to complete their education Similarly to the era of residential schools, they are forced to be away from their families for the purpose of learning another way of life One of the concerns associated with having children move away from their communities is that they will then experience additional racism and discrimination in a situation in which they are isolated and without suffcient supports. 53 Statistics Canada Measuring violence against women: statistical trends Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics February 2013 http://wwwstatcangcca/pub/85 002-x/2013001/article/11766-engpdf pg 9 54 Hasvinsky Cost Estimates of Dropping Out of High School in Canada December 2008 Please see: http://citeseerxistpsuedu/viewdoc/ download?doi=10115104857&rep=rep1&type=pdf 55 Source: Statistics Canada (2008) Aboriginal Children’s Survey, 2006: Supporting Data Tables Income Security: A Roadmap for Change 47
Page 1: INCOME SECURITY A Roadmap for Chang
Page 4 and 5: ACHIEVING INCOME ADEQUACY69 Setting
Page 6 and 7: A CLOSING NOTE164 APPENDIX A: Membe
Page 8 and 9: INCOME SECURITY: FUTURE STATE Essen
Page 10 and 11: 3. Recognizing the Experience of In
Page 12 and 13: ENGAGING THE WHOLE INCOME SECURITY
Page 14 and 15: • The federal government enhance
Page 16 and 17: • Individual choice and well-bein
Page 18 and 19: • Conduct analyses on current and
Page 20 and 21: A TRANSFORMED SOCIAL ASSISTANCE STR
Page 22 and 23: • Initially exempt 25% of Canada
Page 24 and 25: SELF-GOVERNANCE AND RESPECT FOR FIR
Page 26 and 27: • First Nations social service pr
Page 28 and 29: • The capabilities, skills and pr
Page 30 and 31: SEQUENCING REFORM The Roadmap recom
Page 32 and 33: We recommend the Province commit to
Page 34 and 35: 2015 also saw a commitment by the f
Page 36 and 37: MESSAGE FROM THE URBAN INDIGENOUS T
Page 38 and 39: Community members stressed the impo
Page 40 and 41: INTRODUCTION PURPOSE The Income Sec
Page 42 and 43: Income Security Reform in the conte
Page 44 and 45: 2. Essential needs are increasingly
Page 46 and 47: • Research by the Social Planning
Page 48 and 49: The Additional Costs of Disability
Page 50 and 51: • From 2011 to 2014, the incidenc
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Page 56 and 57: A NOTE ON PREVIOUS REPORTS Over the
Page 58 and 59: ONTARIO’S INCOME SECURITY SYSTEM
Page 60 and 61: services 64 More than 68% of socia
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Page 64 and 65: The federal Canada Child Benefit, t
Page 66 and 67: ENVISIONING THE FUTURE VISION All i
Page 68 and 69: GUIDING PRINCIPLES The following pr
Page 70 and 71: and structural racism to ensure equ
Page 72 and 73: 3. Recognizing the Experience of In
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Page 76 and 77: areas, including remote areas In se
Page 78 and 79: DETAILED RECOMMENDATIONS 1.1 The Pr
Page 80 and 81: ONTARIO HOUSING BENEFIT Recommendat
Page 82 and 83: • People must be able to access a
Page 84 and 85: “I’ve been waiting for housing
Page 86 and 87: Children who are being cared for by
Page 88 and 89: When a child is in the care of a Ch
Page 90 and 91: WORKING INCOME TAX BENEFIT Recommen
Page 92 and 93: CORE HEALTH BENEFITS Recommendation
Page 94 and 95: A key strength of Ontario’s curre
Page 96 and 97: TRANSFORMING SOCIAL ASSISTANCE OBJE
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Page 100 and 101: People need to feel they have perso
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focussing primarily on eligibility
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• People are able to access servi
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• A simpler social assistance str
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8.6 Regularly situate Ontario Works
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We note that ODSP has many positive
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as simple and streamlined as possib
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9.4 Provide provincial-level assist
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Because moving to an assured income
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A TRANSFORMED SOCIAL ASSISTANCE STR
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This flat-rate structure would appl
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DETAILED RECOMMENDATIONS 11.1 Trans
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First Nations Delivery Agents of On
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INCOME AND ASSETS Recommendation 13
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additional costs they may have—wh
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HELPING THOSE IN DEEPEST POVERTY OB
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Single Non-disabled Person Fall 201
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• Setting the Standard Flat Rate
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The first Indian Act was passed by
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While the recommendations noted abo
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DETAILED RECOMMENDATIONS 16.1 Based
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16.10 Take steps to ensure that Fir
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• Community-based initiatives spe
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• Increasing and expediting help
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Until further changes to the 1965 A
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A CALL ON THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT Th
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The Roadmap emphasizes the need for
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IMPLEMENTING AND MEASURING CHANGE M
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3. The need to take a system-wide a
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SEQUENCING CHANGE: A 10-YEAR ROADMA
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YEAR 2 The second year of implement
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YEARS 4 TO 10 Years 4 to 10 will ma
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THE COST OF INACTION Poverty is int
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• Ontario Drug Benefit costs for
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• Social Assistance, through: •
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A CLOSING NOTE This Roadmap holds t
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Violet Boissoneau Linda Cobiness Jo
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APPENDIX B: POVERTY REDUCTION STRAT
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Canada Pension Plan - Disability (C
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Indigenous Friendship Centres: Not-
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Old Age Security (OAS): A pension p
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Rent-Geared-To-Income (RGI): Financ
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Trauma-informed practice: Practices
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