Tagged Poverty

Activists marched in Regina on Monday to protest low social assistance rates. They say SIS benefits are so low that they are driving recipients into homelessness.

In Saskatchewan, disabled people on income assistance live off barely half of what the feds’ COVID-19 benefit promises, an amount below the provincial poverty line.

The Ministry of Social Services says that “approximately 4,000 cases were closed between December 1, 2017 and May 31, 2018.” Unless those 4,000 people who had been cut off appealed the decision before July 1, they would never be eligible to receive the supplement again.

Saskatchewan has the second-lowest minimum wage in the country – but there's hope in a fledgling fight for a living wage.