Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As the Member knows, we're in the process of reviewing our income security programs, all of them right now. Over the course of the next six months to a year, yes, we will be looking at all of our programs. But there are some specific aspects of the public housing rental subsidy that we will be looking at definitely in the next six months and one of them is the change in the way that the month is used to determine what your rent is. Previously, the housing associations were using the rent based on, for instance, if you went in on February 28th and said here's what my income was for the month of February, you were told what your rent was for March 1st and you had to come up with it the next day. The way that we're trying to do it is we'll say, well, if your rent was this much for February, that's what your rent will be for April instead of for March, and give people a month to be ready to pay that salary. That may cause some people who are in seasonal jobs some problems, but we're going to monitor that over the next six months and see if that isn't a better way to operate. We think it will be, but we're certainly going to look in six months to see if it's worked out. Thank you.
Charles Dent on Question 66-15(5): Rental Subsidy Program
In the Legislative Assembly on June 6th, 2006. See this statement in context.
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Question 66-15(5): Rental Subsidy Program
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