TORONTO – Ontario is reversing funding cuts to a child benefit program that helps low-income families and refugee claimants.
A spokeswoman for the province’s social services minister confirms the Progressive Conservative government will not go ahead with scrapping the Transition Child Benefit.
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The benefit – which provided up to $230 a month for low-income families not receiving other child benefits – had been scheduled to end Nov. 1.
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But the Tories say it will now continue as the government conducts a broader review of the province’s system of social assistance programs.
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The government announced in its spring budget it was cutting the child benefit, prompting an outcry from municipal mayors.
Toronto Mayor John Tory – who had been among those asking for the cut to be reversed – lauded the province for changing course, saying the benefit should be permanently funded.
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