Deck 16: Canadian Approaches to Income Security

Question 1

If you were to receive social assistance benefits using the Social Assistance Benefits Table (16.2), in which province might it be most advantageous to reside in as a: single person, a person with a disability, a single parent with one child, and as a couple with two children. Explain your answers.

Answer 1

No Answer

Question 2

What is the difference between the CAP, the CHT and CST?

Answer 2

No Answer

Question 3

What is SA and what are the eligibility rules in your province/territory? What are some arguments that support the view that SA should be considered a human resources strategy issue rather than a workfare issue?

Answer 3

No Answer

Question 4

Identify the various pensions available to veterans of wars and provide the history of veteran's allowances.

Question 5

Who are the poor in Canada?

Question 6

Define the following terms: demogrant and LICO.

Question 7

Explain the difference between relative poverty and absolute poverty.

Question 8

Explain the difference between selective and universal programmes and provide an example of each.

Question 9

What is the difference between the QPP and the CPP and what do both plans provide?

Question 10

What did the CCTB replace?

Question 11

Demogrants are

A) Cash payments
B) Based on a demographic characteristic
C) Are usually provided by the employer
D) All of the above
E) A and B above

Question 12

Which of the following factors contribute to poverty?

A) Patriarchy
B) Inability to keep pace with inflation
C) Racism
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 13

There are two major forms of income security:

A) Indoor and outdoor relief
B) Means and Needs
C) Selective and Universal
D) Federal and Provincial
E) None of the above

Question 14

A demogrant is a cash payment to an individual or family based on

A) Means Tests
B) Lack of income
C) Needs tests
D) A demographic characteristic (usually age)
E) None of the above

Question 15

In a regressive tax system

A) Taxes are collected on the ability to pay basis
B) Everyone regardless of income pays the same sales tax
C) High income earners pay a greater proportion of income tax
D) A and C above
E) None of the above

Question 16

CAP was

A) A funding arrangement that allowed the government to cost-share with the provinces
B) A landmark social policy
C) Allowed the federal government to ensure minimum standards of service delivery
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 17

Universal programs

A) Provide cash benefits for all the individuals in society who fall into a certain category
B) Must be proved by a means test
C) Have been systematically increased in the pas 35 years
D) Were developed mainly prior to WWI
E) All of the above

Question 18

EI may be obtained by

A) Loss of job through termination
B) Temporary disruption of work because of illness
C) Application of maternity/paternity benefits
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 19

RAP provides

A) Financial assistance to government assisted refugees
B) Is only for independent class immigrants
C) Is intended to assist family class immigrants
D) Is delivered only by one agency
E) All of the above

Question 20

Selective programs

A) Personalize problems of poverty
B) Focus attention on broader social structures
C) Stigmatize people
D) A and B above
E) A and C above

Question 21

People's ability to climb out of poorly paying jobs is limited.

Question 22

The LICO is based on the share of income an average Canadian family devotes to food, clothing and shelter.

Question 23

The LICO assesses absolute poverty.

Question 24

Relative poverty means that one has insufficient means in relation to prevailing community standards.

Question 25

Absolute poverty denotes a standard of living so low that a person cannot obtain
adequate nutrition or shelter.

Question 26

For all families in Canada, recent statistics indicate that 24% have no financial wealth (such as a house as equity).

Question 27

Many young Canadian families are likely to be poor.

Question 28

Evidence in the latest statistics shows that advocates' demands for a total end to child poverty have been met.

Question 29

A selective payment usually involves a transfer of money from a level of government to an individual.

Question 30

A demogrant is a cash payment to an individual or family based on a demographic characteristic such as age.