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Income Security

Program code
BJK00 (HRSD)
Core responsibility
Income security, access to opportunities and well-being for individuals, families and communities.
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2010-11 – 2017-18

What it does

GC InfoBase has no Program Inventory description for this program.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2010-11. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

2010-112011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18Income Security 2010-11: $35.8BIncome Security 2011-12: $38.3BIncome Security 2012-13: $40.6BIncome Security 2013-14: $42.1BIncome Security 2014-15: $44.5BIncome Security 2015-16: $46.1BIncome Security 2016-17: $48.9BIncome Security 2017-18: $51.4BIncome Security
Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
Income SecurityThis program2010-11 – 2017-18$348B

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.

YearWhat changedSource
2013-14Employees (FTEs) 173, against 321 in 2012-13 (−46%).FTEs (GC InfoBase)
2014-15Employees (FTEs) 211, against 173 in 2013-14 (+22%).FTEs (GC InfoBase)
2015-16Employees (FTEs) 4,381, against 211 in 2014-15 (+1976%).FTEs (GC InfoBase)

Success criteria

Neither this program nor its core responsibility has results indicators in GC InfoBase (internal services, for example, have none).

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2013-14: $42.1B2013-142014-15: $44.5B2014-152015-16: $46.1B2015-162016-17: $48.9B2016-172017-18: $51.4B2017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2013-14—$42.1B
2014-15—$44.5B
2015-16—$46.1B
2016-17—$48.9B
2017-18—$51.4B

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 3312013-14: 1732013-142014-15: 1922014-15: 2112014-152015-16: 4,1202015-16: 4,3812015-162016-17: 3,7532016-17: 4,8012016-172017-18: 4,5062017-18: 5,0762017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
Show the numbers
Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2013-14331173
2014-15192211
2015-164,1204,381
2016-173,7534,801
2017-184,5065,076

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Plan
Actual

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.