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Yukon | Yukon |
Updated April 7, 2010
Page révisée le 7 avril 2010
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Government - Gouvernement
Government
of Yukon Home Page News
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Department responsible for welfare Name of the
welfare program Legislation Policy Manual * Contact Information Welfare statistics Welfare rates (benefits) Latest
search results on Google.ca for Related Links For more information about welfare in other Canadian jurisdictions, see the Canadian Social Research Links Key Provincial/Territorial Welfare Links page |
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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.
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Department responsible for welfare
Dept. of Health and Social Services (HSS)
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:
* Contact Information
* Frequently Asked Questions
* How to Apply for Social Assistance
* Review Hearing
* Employment and Training Services Brochure
* Income Deductions Brochure
* Social Assistance Act
* Social Assistance Overview Booklet
* Social Assistance Review Hearing Booklet
* Supplementary Allowance Brochure
* The Yukon Child Benefit Booklet
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
- Social Assistance
Reform Complete - May 28/08
[ more Yukon news releases
about social assistance ]
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Social
Inclusion Strategy to Address Poverty Issues
News Release
October 14, 2009
WHITEHORSE – Health and Social Services Minister Glenn Hart announced today
the development of a social inclusion strategy for the territory. “A social
inclusion strategy is a significant advancement in social policy in Yukon. Social
inclusion ensures that services target those in need and are accessible for
all members of society,” Hart said. “Social inclusion is a measure
of any government on how it deals with those citizens in need of support.”
(...) There will be four phases in developing the strategy:
• Creating a collaborative process.
• Collecting data and consulting.
• Developing a strategy to address priorities from the data and consultations.
• Reviewing and reporting annually.
Source:
Yukon Health and Social Services
Related links ===> Go to the Anti-poverty Strategies and Campaigns page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/antipoverty.htm
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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
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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.>
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Yukon Budget
2010-2011
March 25, 2010
- links to all budget documents, including financial information, projections,
operations and maintenance estimates, and capital estimates
2010-2011 Budget Address [pdf 184KB]
2010-2011 Budget Highlights [pdf 47KB]
Related links:
Record
spending in Yukon budget
March 25, 2010
Yukon Premier Dennis Fentie has presented a $1.08-billion budget that promises
another year of record spending, one that opposition MLAs say will burden future
generations with massive debt. In introducing the budget in the legislature
Thursday, Fentie, who is also the Yukon's finance minister, said he has laid
out a responsible spending plan that will see the Yukon into the future. (...)
The 2010-11 budget projects revenues of $1.05 billion and expenditures of $1.08
billion, but the government said that because of various adjustments, it'll
have a $2.9-million surplus by the end of the fiscal year. However,
the government will be coming out of the 2009-10 fiscal year with a $23-million
deficit, about $11 million of which was spent by the Health and Social Services
Department.
Source:
CBC North
- Go to the 2010 Canadian Government Budgets Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/budgets_2010.htm
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Other Yukon Sites - Autres sites du Yukon
May 25, 2009
New resource from the Canadian Council on
Social Development:
Poverty
Reduction Policies and Programs in the Yukon (PDF - 1.7MB, 33 pages)
By Natalie EdelsonSource:
Poverty Reduction Policies
and Programs
Social Development Report Series, 2009
[ Canadian Council on Social Development ]
Also from CCSD :
Poverty
Reduction Policies and Programs in Canada (PDF - 341K, 29 pages)
By David I. Hay, Information Partnership
Related links ===> Go to the Anti-poverty Strategies and Campaigns page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/antipoverty.htm
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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. - 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
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