The National Child Benefit helps all low-income families. Parents on welfare can now move into jobs while keeping important financial supports for their children. And parents already working in low-income jobs now get the support they need to stay employed. In July 1998, the Government of Canada increased federal income benefits for about 1.4 million Canadian families with 2.5 million children by creating the new National Child Benefit Supplement. These include child benefits such as the Nova Scotia Child Benefit, the Saskatchewan Child Benefit and the Northwest Territories Child Benefit, as well as working income supplements like the BC Earned Income Supplement and the Northwest Territories Workers' Supplement.
Program provides nutritional information and financial support.
Each year, a new progress report will explain the latest results of the National Child Benefit. The next report will come out in the fall of 2000. Between now and then, Canadian governments will continue to evaluate the policies being put into practice. They will also monitor progress made towards reducing child poverty and increasing labour market participation. Quebec, however, has not taken part in the initiative because it wishes to assume control of income support for the children of Quebec.