Thank you, Mr. Chair. So there's two components to these changes. The one is the change, as the Minister talked about, to the Income Assistance Regulations to make sure that we're not counting Canada Child Benefit as well as the NWT Child Benefit, as well as support payments to families on income assistance in calculating that level. That'll take place in, as the Minister mentioned, August 1stassessing July income, so that'll have that impact.
In terms of the NWT Child Benefit, there's a couple changes that are needed. One is changes to legislation, specifically the NWT Income Tax Act, so we'll be working with committee to try to expedite those changes so we can make them as quickly as possible. Then we'll need to work with the federal government to tweak their systems as well.
In terms of the sort of description of the overall benefits, the increased NWT Child Benefit will apply up to an income threshold that'll be in the range of $30,000 and then the benefits will start to go down, similar to how the federal system works. We expect families up to $80,000 income will receive some NWT Child Benefit. There'll be differential rates for whether there's children under six or between six and 17 years of age. All of that detail will start to get rolled out here now that it's been announced and we'll get the members more detail on that in the upcoming weeks as well. That's sort of the general characteristics of the program. Thank you, Mr. Chair.