How would the Ontario Child Benefit work?
Unfortunately, The Road Ahead provides few details about the new benefit or how it would work. The platform says that families receiving social assistance will receive almost $1,500 more per year for their first child, almost $1,300 for their second child and approximately $1,200 for each additional child. Notice that these amounts are virtually identical to the National Child Benefit Supplement which is currently clawed-back. Beyond this, there is little available information on the proposed benefit. ISAC wrote to the Minister of Community, Family and Children’s Services requesting more information on the new benefit, but her reply did not provide any clarification. 4. Are there any child benefit models that the Province could be planning to use? Yes. While most provinces and territories have some variation on a child benefit program, the Ontario Conservatives probably took the idea from a recent proposal for a child benefit put forward in early 2003 by the Association of Municipaliti
