The new Poverty Reduction Plan is helping ease cost-of-living pressures, and contributing to improved health, income, and food security.

A higher cost of living has impacted many Newfoundlanders and Labradorians, and Canadians. The new Poverty Reduction Plan is helping ease some of those pressures, as contributing to improved health, income and food security.

Highlights of our plan include:

• Increasing the Newfoundland and Labrador Child Benefit by 300 per cent. Newfoundland and Labrador now has the highest child benefits in Atlantic Canada, and the third highest in Canada.
• Expanding the Prenatal-Infant Nutritional Supplement up to age five and renaming it the Prenatal-Early Childhood Nutrition Supplement. The new supplement is now the best in Canada.
• Increased funding for school food programs to ensure school lunch and breakfast programs are available in all Pre-Kindergarten and K-9 schools.
• Continuing the Employment Stability Pilot province-wide; and providing enhanced programming to train and connect non-employment insurance eligible individuals to employment.
• Increasing the comfort allowance immediately by $50 per month to a total of $175 monthly for people staying in temporary accommodations where meals are provided, such as emergency homeless shelters.
• Implementing a second targeted Basic Income Pilot for people aged 60 to 64 who currently receive Income Support and the Community Supports Program through Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services. Pilot participants will receive an increase in payments to match federal seniors benefits available to people aged 65 and over. This will allow for more adequate and stable financial supports.

View our two-pager (pdf) info sheet here.