Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, my questions today are for the Minister of
Education, Culture and Employment. Just after we concluded the budget session in March, I was approached by an individual who was on income support for a couple of months and went back to work. He was employable, certainly before, and entered into the Income Support Program for two months while going through some difficult times in his life. He went back to work after two months and he was surprised, the mail box changed and four months go by and all of a sudden somebody gets in touch with him and says we have four months worth of income support mail for you. He went and picked it up. Not only did he have four months of income support payments that he should not have received, the government also paid his rent for four months.
The first question I would have for the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment is what is this monthly report card that ECE sent around to income support clients last summer? Is it being used? If it is not being used, why? Thank you, Madam Speaker.