Yukon
Legislative Assembly
- incl. links to : Members of the Legislative
Assembly - Order Paper - Progress of Bills - Blues (preliminary Hansard transcript)
- Yesterday's Hansard - Hansard
Government
of Yukon Legislation - links to statutes, regs, hansard, etc.
Dept.
of Health and Social Services
Department
responsible for welfare
Name of the welfare
program
Social
Assistance
Legislation
Yukon
Social Assistance Act (PDF file - 125K, 6 pages)
-
Yukon Social Assistance
Regulations (PDF file - 144K, 42 pages)
[ Government
of Yukon Legislation ]
Policy Manual
No policy manual.
See the main
page of the Social Assistance program for: * Frequently Asked Questions *
Changes to Social Assistance * Contact Information * links to five brochures (PDFs
- 5-7 pages each) with more program information
Welfare
statistics
Bureau
of Statistics (no welfare stats)
See also:
Number
of People on Welfare, March 1995 to March 2005 (PDF file - 133K, 1 page)
Source:
National Council of Welfare
Welfare rates (benefits)
- See s.18-21 and Schedule A of the
S.A. Regulations (PDF file - 144K, 42 pages)
Latest
search results on Google.ca for
"welfare,
-child, -animal, Yukon"
- Web
search results
- News
search results
- Blog
search results
Related Links
- Recent
Changes to Yukon Social Assistance Programs
- June 2008 (Source: Yukon
Social Assistance)
NOTE : All 2008 SA changes are included in the revised
regulations (see above)
- Social
Assistance Reform Complete - May 28/08
- Families
and Children with Disabilities will Benefit from New Program (Dec. 13/07)
-
Increase to Yukon Child Benefit
to Help Low-Income Families (Dec. 6/07)
- Proposed
Social Assistance Reforms Announced (Nov. 28/07)
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Recent
Changes to Yukon Social Assistance Programs
June 2008
- changes
include an increase to maximum social assistance rates (as of the June 21/08 cheque),
an increase to the maximum earnings exemption (50% of employment income is exempt
for up to three years, 25% after that), changes for people with severe disabilities
that will allow for more flexibility in how the program may be able to respond
to your individual circumstances, total exemption of the federal Registered Disability
Savings Plan and the Working Income Tax Benefit and clarification of the administration
of social assistance in Yukon (SA Regulations have been more clearly written to
distinguish between what is “assistance” and what is considered “aid”
or “welfare services”).
Source:
Yukon
Social Assistance
[ Dept. of Health
and Social Services (HSS) ]
---
Social
Assistance Reform Complete
News
Release
May 28, 2008
WHITEHORSE - Health and Social Services Minister Brad
Cathers today announced changes to the social assistance regulations that finalize
the government's Social Assistance Reform. (...) Changes to the regulations are
broad, and include providing an increased incentive to assist recipients in entering
the workforce, raising the amounts recipients receive for basic needs such as
food, shelter and clothing, and reducing red tape for persons with severe disabilities.
NOTE:
this news release includes a Social Assistance Backgrounder that explains changes
in the areas of earnings exemptions and services to people with disabilities,
and that compares social assistance benefit rates for single
people and for two-adult+two-children families in effect before and after July
2008.
Source:
Government
of Yukon
Families
and Children with Disabilities will Benefit from New Program
December
13, 2007
WHITEHORSE – Yukon children with disabilities and their families
will now benefit from a new program announced today by Health and Social Services
Minister Brad Cathers. The Services to Children with Disabilities Program will
be delivered within the Family and Children’s Services Branch of the department,
through a new unit called Family Supports for Children with Disabilities.Increase
to Yukon Child Benefit to Help Low-Income Families
Increase
to Yukon Child Benefit to Help Low-Income Families
December 6,
2007
WHITEHORSE – To assist low-income Yukoners with the costs of raising
their children, Health and Social Services Minister Brad Cathers announced today
an increase to the Yukon Child Benefit (YCB).
Proposed
Social Assistance Reforms Announced
November 28, 2007
WHITEHORSE
– Health and Social Services Minister Brad Cathers today announced proposed
changes to social assistance rates and program structures, resulting from the
most comprehensive review of social assistance conducted since the program’s
inception.
- proposed changes include (among others) increases to social assistance
rates, an incentive package to encourage social assistance recipients to enter
the workforce and a new program with enhanced services for persons with severe
disabilities who are eligible for social assistance.
Related
links:
Yukon
businesses applaud proposed social assistance changes
November
29
The Yukon's business community gave a thumbs-up Thursday to the territorial
government's proposed changes to its social assistance program, although some
say more can be done to help assistance recipients stay in the workforce. (...)
Health and Social Services Minister Brad Cathers said he is proposing to raise
social assistance rates by about 20 per cent, as well as offer financial incentives
to encourage recipients to enter the workforce.Cathers said the changes came from
a comprehensive review of the territory's social assistance program. The government
has to meet with federal authorities and First Nations before the changes can
be implemented.
Source:
CBC
<begin
social program researcher's lament/plea.>
There are some excellent government
websites about social assistance in the provinces and territories, but sadly,
Yukon's is not one of them. The only social assistance program information that
I can find on the Yukon Health and Social
Services website is a blurb
about the Pioneer Utility Grant for People over 65 and a Frequently-Asked
Questions page that barely touches on social assistance program details. (For
your info, there were about 1,100 people in receipt of welfare in March of 2005,
the latest figures I could find.) For links Yukon welfare caseload figures from
1995 to 2005 as well as to the Yukon Social Assistance Act and Regulations and
to Google.ca Web, news and blog search results pages, check the links in the grey
section on this page. On behalf of welfare researchers, may I say that it would
be greatly appreciated if the nice folks in Yukon Health and Social Services could
update their site to include more info on their social assistance program...
</end
social program researcher's lament/plea.>
Finance
Yukon
Budget 2009 - Main Budget page
March 19, 2009
- includes
links to all budget papers + links to previous years' budgets
2009-10
Budget Continuing to Invest in Yukon’s Future
News Release
March
19, 2009
WHITEHORSE – The Government of Yukon’s 2009-10 Capital and
Operations and Maintenance budget, totaling $1 billion and $3 million, was tabled
in the legislative assembly today by Premier Dennis Fentie.(...) This year will
be the seventh consecutive year-end with a budget surplus, which includes $240.6
million in Capital spending and $762.6 million in Operations and Maintenance.
Budget
papers:
2009-2010
Budget Address [PDF - 125.60 KB]
2009-2010
Budget Highlights [[PDF - 48.82 KB]
2009-2010
Financial Information [[PDF - 1126.29 KB]
2009-2010
Projections [[PDF - 48.08 KB]
2009-2010
Operation and Maintenance Estimates
2009-2010
Capital Estimates
Related link:
More
spending, no tax hikes, in Yukon's $1B budget
March 19, 2009
Yukon
Premier Dennis Fentie, seen speaking to business leaders on Wednesday, said his
budget aims to stimulate the private sector economy and help communities.Yukon
Premier Dennis Fentie, seen speaking to business leaders on Wednesday, said his
budget aims to stimulate the private sector economy and help communities.
Source:
CBC
North
- Go to the 2009 Canadian
Government Budgets Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/budgets.htm
---
Yukon
Budget 2008-2009
March 20, 2008
- incl. links
to : Budget Address - Budget Highlights - 2008-2009 Financial Information
-
2008-2009 Projections - Operation and Maintenance Estimates 2008-2009 - Capital
Estimates 2008-2009
Related Web/News/Blog
links:
Google Search Results
Links - always current results!
Using the following search terms
(without the quote marks):
"yukon budget 2008-2009"
- Web
search results page
- News search
results page
- Blog Search Results
page
Source:
Google.ca
-
Go to the Canadian Government Budgets Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/budgets.htm
---Yukon
2007-2008 Budget
April 19, 2007
- incl. links to all budget papers
Welfare
recipients get no boost from Yukon budget
April 20, 2007
Yukon
welfare recipients and anti-poverty activists were disappointed to find no change
in social assistance rates in the territory's latest budget. Premier
Dennis Fentie delivered a projected $862-million budget on Thursday, the largest
in the territory's history. Many who attended the Yukon
Anti-Poverty Coalition's monthly meeting late Thursday had been hoping the big
budget would include an increase in monthly social assistance payments. Coalition
co-chair Ross Findlater said he was "quite disappointed" with the news.
Source:
CBC
Google
Search Results Links - always current results!
Using the following
search terms (without the quote marks):
"Yukon budget 2007"
Web
search results page
News search results
page
Blog Search Results page
Source:
Google.ca
-
For more Canadian government budgets, go to the Canadian Government Budgets Links
page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/budgets.htm
------------------------------------
Government
of Yukon Budget 2006
March 30, 2006
- incl. links to all budget
papers
- Go to the Canadian Government Budgets
Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/budgets.htm
Education
Yukon
Bureau of Statistics
Women's
Directorate
Links
- almost three dozen links to sites about gender-based analysis and government
sites of interest for women's studies
Publications
Other
Yukon Sites - Autres sites du Yukon
Nodice
Elections: Yukon Territory
http://www.nodice.ca/elections/yukonterritory
Source:
Nodice
Elections
Related Links:
- Go to the Political Parties
and Elections Links in Canada (Provinces and Territories) page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/politics_prov_terr.htm
Another
Look at Welfare Reform (Autumn 1997)
- an in-depth analysis by the
National Council of Welfare of changes in Canadian welfare programs in the 1990s.
The report focuses on the provincial and territorial reforms that preceded
the repeal of the Canada Assistance Plan and those that followed the implementation
of the Canada Health and Social Transfer.
Complete
report online - large file (300K+) but well worth the wait for detailed
information on welfare reforms in the 1990s in each Canadian jurisdiction, as
well as a national overview of the broad issues of welfare reform and the setting
for welfare reform in Canada
Source : National
Council of Welfare |
List
of issues to be taken up in connection with the consideration of the third periodic
report of Canada : United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights - Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights (June 10, 1998)
Yukon Government
Response to the U.N. List of Issues
- WORKink
Yukon - "The Virtual Employment Resource Centre"
Career and Employment Resources for Persons with Disabilities
- Links to a wide range of information for people with disabilities and those
who support them.
Source:
Canadian
Council on Rehabilitation and Work -
- Service
Canada Regional Information:
British Columbia and Yukon
This
page provides information on region-specific services for Individuals, Business
and Organizations.
Services include: Jobs * Financial Benefits * Employment
Insurance * Taxes * Training and Careers * Identification Cards * Travel and Passports
* Health * Consumer Information * Canada and the World * Environment and Resources
* Economy * Public Safety * Culture and Recreation * Science and Technology.
Source:
Service
Canada
Human Resources and Social Development
Canada
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