National Child Benefit

The Government of Canada contributes to the NCB initiative through a supplement to its Canada Child Tax Benefit (CCTB) system.

As of July 2005, the maximum annual Child Disability Benefit will be 2,000 per eligible child.

a one time benefit for the birth of the child

The Child Disability Benefit is delivered as a supplement to the CCTB.

The National Child Benefit investments that were started in 1998 1999, contribute approximately 2.7 million annually in child care services.

Support to families with children In order to provide support to families with children, the system of state social benefits for families with children, established in 1991, grants the family state benefit to such families and an additional payment for a child with disabilities, a child care allowance and a childbirth benefit.

The decrease in both the overall and child poverty rates can in part be attributed to the federal National Child Benefit and Newfoundland and Labrador Child Benefit programs and initiatives that reduce reliance on income support and increase attachment to the labour market.

A benefit is paid directly to the individual who is providing child care services.

The family state benefit has a universal character it is granted to every child.

The childbirth benefit as a single benefit is granted to one of the parents of the child or a person who has adopted or assumed guardianship over a child under the age of one year.

New Brunswick continues to pass on the National Child Benefit to its social assistance recipients.

The National Child Benefit Supplement is considered unearned income and deducted from social assistance payments.

The legislation also prohibits the incitement, encouragement of or gaining benefit from child sex tourism.

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Children's Services has increased benefits through National Child Benefit reinvestments to expand the Child Care Bursary to include the Kin Child Care Program and a new Advancing Futures Bursary Program.

In 2003 2004, the National Child Benefit Supplement was fully restored, allowing  13.7 million annually to flow through to Manitoba families on income assistance (see the Introduction to this report for information on the National Child Benefit).

Total provincial National Child Benefit (NCB) investments in PEI for 2004 2005 amounted to 3.6 million.

The child rights protection project could benefit from harmonization and streamlining with national programmes and strategies.

In the latter case the benefit is granted for the time while the child attends school.

There is a general family benefit system in Latvia, which forms part of the national social security system.

A parent on parental leave can receive parental benefit until the child is 11 months old, after that the parent will receive child care allowance until the child is 3 years old.

Information on the National Child Benefit (NCB) initiative is included in the Introduction to the present report.

Reinvestments from this reduction go toward funding the Nunavut Child Benefit and the Territorial Working Family Supplement.

Child benefit payments made directly to the mother had more than doubled in real terms since 1997.

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Child income support is a key feature of the Government apos s commitment to families, with half a million families benefiting from our scheme of Child Benefit.

The criteria to benefit from a sponsor was that the child had to be an orphan or disabled.

The Evaluation of the National Child Benefit Initiative Synthesis Report compiled evidence from a number of evaluation studies.

There have been no changes to the way Nunavut deals with the National Child Benefit program since 1999.

The additional payment to the family state benefit for a child with disabilities is 35 LVL per month.

In 2003, the Government of Canada introduced the Child Disability Benefit to recognize the special needs of low and modest income families with a child with a disability.

The Government of Nova Scotia has made some important strides in addressing child poverty as part of the National Child Benefit (NCB) (see Introduction to the present report).

A cost benefit system is thus used to assess where improvements are most urgent.

Under the Law On Social Assistance the family state benefit is granted to persons who bring up a child.

The guardian receives a benefit in the amount of 32 LVL for each child entrusted to her his guardianship.

Taking the total amount of 1.5 of GDP in 2001 and the personal income tax relief for a dependent child, as well as the family state benefit in 2001 as the basis, the family state benefit amount for each child should be 10.12 LVL.

Alberta Human Resources and Employment implemented the Income and Employment Supports Act in 2004, which provided a new mandate for the Alberta Child Health Benefit and the Alberta Adult Health Benefit.

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The bad news is that those who benefit from the current system are resisting progress.

Financial assistance Financial assistance includes the state social benefit system and municipal social assistance benefits.

Our objective for the future is to develop Child Benefit as the main element of child income support, especially as it is payable to families regardless of their work status.

The (OCCS) is Ontario's main reinvestment under the National Child Benefit (NCB) initiative (see the Introduction to the present report).

Child Benefit is a universal payment which goes to almost 1 million children, irrespective of the income of the household.

With the introduction of the federal child benefits, the Department of Human Resources, Labour and Employment introduced the Newfoundland and Labrador Child Benefit to assist children living in low income families.