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- Newsgroups: alt.child-support
- Subject: Re: Indiana Welfare
- Message-ID: <uk02XB3w165w@oneb2.almanac.bc.ca>
- From: lisa@oneb2.almanac.bc.ca
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 16:22:53 PST
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- Organization: Lebenty-Screech's Almanac, Nanaimo, B.C. CANADA
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- johne@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (John Eaton) writes:
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- > lisa@oneb2.almanac.bc.ca wrote:
- > :
- > : In B.C., Social Assistance ("Welfare") standard rates (maximum) for one adu
- > : $525/month. I don't know what the maximum rate is for one parent with two
- > : children is now, but in 1990 it was $974/mo., (maximum allowance). That tw
- > : year old figure is considerably more than Indiana's $580/mo. for a parent w
- > : two children...$396 more! I can assure you that even in 1990, $974/mo. did
- > : go very far...
- > :
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- > $974 Canadian at current exchange rates is about $761 US. If you also factor
- > in the differences between Canadian GST and US Sales tax you will find the
- > two amounts aren't all that far apart interms of buying power.
- >
- > John Eaton
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- Thank you John, for pointing this out. However, we pay sales tax here, too.
- B.C. provincial sales tax is 6% (plus GST of 7%). Alberta is the only Canadian
- province that doesn't have a sales tax.
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- Also, $761 is still $179 less than welfare here was *2 years ago* for a parent
- with two children.
-
- Lisa
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- Lisa Lambeth lisa@oneb2.almanac.bc.ca
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- Founder, P.E.R.C.S. (Parents for Enforcing Regular Child Support)
- Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada // Courtesy of the old coot hisse'f!
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