Unemployment Assistance Act — U-0.6 1
lity for the upkeep of inmates in homes for special care and the number of persons in respect of whom such payments are made, provided that said imates are unemployed and in need and the payments claimed do not exceed what an individual might reasonably be expected to pay for accommodation of a comparable kind and quality in the same locality and provided further that said inmates are not such as would normally be cared for in general, acute, chronic or convalescent hospitals, tuberculosis sanatoria, mental institutions, institutions for incurables, orphanages or child welfare institutions; (b) a person in receipt of (i) unemployment benefit under the Employment Insurance Act , (ii) a pension under the Old Age Security Act , (iii) [Repealed, 1974-75-76, c. 58, s. 11] (iv) an allowance under the Blind Persons Act , (v) an allowance under the Disabled Persons Act , or (vi) a supplemental allowance or cost-of-living bonus provided under the law of the province to recipients of benefit under any of the aforementioned Acts; or (c) a recipient of mother’s allowance. 8 Notwithstanding subparagraph 7(b) there may be included in the reimbursement claim any additional relief payments made by the province or by a municipality to persons described in the said subparagraph and the number of persons to whom such payments are made if such persons are unemployed and in need. 9 There shall also be excluded from the reimbursement claim payments made in respect of (a) medical, hospital, nursing, dental and optical care and drugs and dressings; (b) funeral expenses; (c) all travelling expenses except those, if Canada is not contributing thereto under some other arrangement, that are made for the purpose of (i) returning a recipient of unemployment assistance and his dependants, if any, to his normal place of residence under an arrangement to which the municipality or the government of the province to which he is being returned has agreed in advance, (ii) enabling a recipient of unemployment assistance or dependent member of his family to obtain assured employment as certified by the National Employment Service, or (iii) enabling a recipient of unemployment assistance or a dependent member of his family to obtain needed medical, hospital or nursing home care which cannot be provided at his normal place of residence; and (d) the cost of administration. 10 There shall be deducted from the reimbursement claim an amount calculated by multiplying the average per person monthly cost of assistance by the decrease in the number of recipients of mothers’ allowances. 11 The average per person monthly cost of assistance shall be calculated by dividing the total of the payments made during the month, as set forth in the reimbursement claim, by the total number of persons, including dependants, who received assistance during the said month as set forth in the reimbursement claim. 12 For the purpose of paragraph 10, the decrease in the number of recipients of mothers’ allowances shall be calculated as follows: (a) the average monthly percentage of the population of the province who were recipients of mother’s allowance during each twelve-month period from the first day of July 1945, to the thirtieth day of June prior to the month to which the reimbursement claim relates shall be determined, and in determining these percentages the latest estimate made by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics and published by the Queen’s Printer at Ottawa of the population of the province on the first day of June or nearest date thereto in each twelve-month period shall be used; (b) the average monthly percentage determined for the twelve-month period ending the thirtieth day of June immediately preceding the month to which the reimbursement claim relates shall be subtracted from the highest percentage ascertained pursuant to subparagraph (a) of this paragraph in respect of any other twelve-month period; (c) from the difference ascertained pursuant to subparagraph (b) of this paragr