Download spreadsheets of the Welfare in Canada data
Key features of social assistance programs across the country
- Eligibility for Social Assistance: Assets and Income
- Indexation of benefits and credits
- Cost of living and shelter benefits breakdown
Links to jurisdictions’ legislation and policies relating to social assistance
- Income and Employment Supports Act
- Income Supports, Health and Training Benefits regulations
- Alberta Works policy manual (see Income Support Program)
- Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped Act
- Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped regulations
- Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped policy manual
- Ontario Works Act
- Ontario Works Regulation
- Ontario Works policy directives
- Ontario Disability Support Program Act
- Ontario Disability Support Program regulations
- Ontario Disability Support Program policy directives (scroll to bottom of the page for ODSP Income Support manual)
- Social assistance rate tables (note, this is not a government website)
- Social Assistance Act
- Social Assistance regulations (note that this may not be up to date)
- Social Assistance policy manual (note that this is not up to date)
- AccessAbility Supports policies
- Saskatchewan Assistance Act
- Saskatchewan Assistance regulations
- Saskatchewan Assistance Program policy manual
- Saskatchewan Assistance Program rates
- Transitional Employment Allowance regulations
- Transitional Employment Allowance policy manual
- Transitional Employment Allowance rates
- Saskatchewan Assured Income for Disability policy manual
- Saskatchewan Assured Income for Disability rates
- Saskatchewan Income Support (effective July 2019)
- Saskatchewan Income Support rates(effective July 2019)
More information on measures of welfare adequacy
- Backgrounder on measures of low income (published May 2017)
- What poverty reduction advocates should know about the updated poverty measure (published September 2020)
- Latest adequacy thresholds: