Put the disabled on Ontario Works and then kick them off’
TORONTO — Ontario should claw back welfare for able-bodied people who’ve been collecting benefits for a long time to motivate them to find a job, Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak said Thursday.
Other ideas include merging Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Program into a single program, which would still be funded by the province but administered by municipalities. Another idea, taken from the United States, is introducing a debit card that could only be used to buy food.
Money could be saved by reducing “management layers” and supervisors to make the system more efficient, as well as allowing non-profits, charities and the private sector to bid on contracts to administer social programs.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/01/18/ontario-tories-to-cut-welfare-to-long-term-benefit-collectors-as-motivation-to-find-work/
TORONTO — Ontario should claw back welfare for able-bodied people who’ve been collecting benefits for a long time to motivate them to find a job, Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak said Thursday.
Other ideas include merging Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Program into a single program, which would still be funded by the province but administered by municipalities. Another idea, taken from the United States, is introducing a debit card that could only be used to buy food.
Money could be saved by reducing “management layers” and supervisors to make the system more efficient, as well as allowing non-profits, charities and the private sector to bid on contracts to administer social programs.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/01/18/ontario-tories-to-cut-welfare-to-long-term-benefit-collectors-as-motivation-to-find-work/
