Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, with the transfer of social assistance to the Department of Education, Culture and Employment, the Department of Health and Social Services had taken the main estimates through the budget process before that. So when the transfer took place, there was a reduction in dollars. Part of that was to eliminate what are known as special benefits. These special benefits were eliminated because they were seen as not being available to the working corp.

So someone who was working at a minimum wage job, for instance, and might be earning no more money than someone on social assistance, didn't have the ability to get that benefit. That was the reason for its elimination.