McCaustlin says the basic social assistance rate for a single person considered employable amounts to just over 64 hundred dollars a year. A couple with two children have to make do with just under 10 thousand 900 dollars and a person, certified as being disabled, receives only 537 dollars a month.
She also points out the usage of food banks has gone up by 18 per cent in the last two years and warns the poor can't belt tighten anymore because their stomachs are already touching their backbones.
