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What is Income Security?

Income support in the form of demogrants, social insurance, social assistance, and income supplementation that can be unconditional or based on an income or needs test, or negative income tax.


Working for Relief: Trucks taking men to work on roads and in gravel pits which is required to get relief (income security) in 1934, Dundurn, Sask. National Archives Neg. no. PA35600.





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