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Income Assistance

Program code
BWS02 (INDSC)
Core responsibility
Individuals and Families
In Departmental Plans
2018-19 – 2018-19 · Appeared and later dropped

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 2018-19. 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).

2018-192019-202020-212021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-272027-282028-29Income Assistance 2018-19: $1.03BIncome Assistance 2019-20: $1.04BIncome Assistance 2020-21: $1.09BIncome Assistance 2019-20: $983MIncome Assistance 2020-21: $1.22BIncome Assistance 2021-22: $1.3BIncome Assistance 2022-23: $1.32BIncome Assistance 2023-24: $881MIncome Assistance 2024-25: $922MIncome Assistance 2023-24: $1.57BIncome Assistance 2024-25: $1.39BIncome Assistance 2025-26: $1.54BIncome Assistance 2026-27: $1.59BIncome Assistance 2027-28: $1.56BIncome Assistance 2028-29: $1.6BIncome AssistanceIncome AssistanceIncome Assistance
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 AssistanceThis program2018-19 – 2020-21$1.03B
Income AssistanceLater program (name match, high confidence)2019-20 – 2024-25$4.82B
Income AssistanceLater program (name match, high confidence)2023-24 – 2028-29$2.96B

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
2019-20Appears to be replaced by Income AssistanceCanada Spends name match across plans (an inference)

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Historical: targets against results

No results reported yet.

Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets

No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.

Future goals: targets due after 2026-27

No targets with a later due date.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2018-19: $1B2018-19: $1.03B2018-192019-20: $1.04B2019-202020-21: $1.09B2020-21
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2018-19$1B$1.03B
2019-20$1.04B*—
2020-21$1.09B*—

Employees (FTEs)

2018-19: 712018-19: 672018-192019-20: 712019-202020-21: 712020-21
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2018-197167
2019-2071*—
2020-2171*—

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

Plan2018-192019-202020-21
2018-19 plan$1,000,604,662$1,043,519,151$1,085,575,982
Actual$1,030,185,630

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