Thank you. Deputy minister MacDonald.
Debates of March 2nd, 2022
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Macdonald
Thank you, Madam Chair. So for the senior home heating subsidy program, the program uptake for the 2020-2021 fiscal year was approximately 685 seniors. And just to give a sense of regional breakdown Beaufort Delta would be about 16 percent, Deh Cho 20 percent, North Slave 23 percent, Sahtu 13 percent, and South Slave 28 percent. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Caitlin Cleveland Kam Lake
Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and I'm sure it's not going to be a big shocker but I'm going down the line to student financial assistance. And my question there is I see that there is a remarkable drop in -- between the 2021-2022 Main Estimates and the 2022-2023 Main Estimates for student financial assistance. And I would like to know the demographic as well for 2020-2021 of student financial assistance clientele or clients, and then I'm wondering if the Minister can speak to why the predicted, I guess, drop in uptake of student financial assistance for the current fiscal year? Thank you.
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R.J. Simpson Hay River North
Thank you. So the federal government provided us with some -- about $2 million, I believe, for supports for post-secondary students, and we rolled those out as a grant, a technology grant to help students purchase a laptop if they needed one as well as a grant to help students with the cost of internet on a month-to-month basis. And so that money was included in the previous main estimates, but it was time limited and so this has returned to the previous numbers without that federal investment. And as far the demographics, I can ask Mr. MacDonald to answer. Thank you.
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Macdonald
Thank you, Madam Chair. So again, for the 2020-2021 fiscal year, or academic year in this case, I should say, the SFA program provided assistance to approximately 1,128 Northwest Territories students. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Caitlin Cleveland Kam Lake
No, that's excellent. Thank you so much, Madam Chair.
Madam Chair, I have one more question, and it's in regards to active positions within the income security division. I notice that there has been a loss of five positions that all come from the regions. And I'm wondering if the Minister can speak to why the loss of positions and why all from regional centres? Thank you.
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Saturnino
Thank you, Madam Chair. On page 8 on the schedule of active positions for income security, there's no change in the number of positions between 2021-2022 and 2022-2023. Thank you.
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Caitlin Cleveland Kam Lake
Thank you, that's one point for ECE, because I read the wrong line item. I near had a heart attack if they were taking away five jobs. So one point, ECE. Thank you.
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The Chair Lesa Semmler
All right. Any more questions from Members under income security? Member for Yellowknife North.
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Rylund Johnson Yellowknife North
Thank you, Madam Chair. Can the Minister give me an updated figure of how much income assistance is -- how much of income assistance goes to housing? And I note that some of that would be to market housing and then some of that would be for public housing. Whatever figure the Minister has out of this $39 million, thank you.
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R.J. Simpson Hay River North
Thank you. So the income assistance programs provided a shelter benefit to approximately 2,000 applicants each year with the shelter benefits of $8 million. So the average number of applicants within the past three years is about 1100 in public housing at a cost of $775,000. And about 880 in market housing at about $7.3 million. So the vast majority of that benefit goes to market housing. Thank you.
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