投资Hamilton!! 安省试点发钱的城市,每人发17000/年!! 各位租金都有保障了!!

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投资Hamilton!! 安省试点发钱的城市,每人发17000/年!! 各位租金都有保障了!!

安省省长韦恩今天在汉密尔顿(Hamilton)宣布,汉密尔顿、林赛(Lindsay)和雷湾(Thunder Bay)被确定为安省基本收入(basic income)试验区,这三个地区的低收入人士或家庭有望在三年内免费拿钱,多伦多则无社区入选。

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前参议员Hugh Segal曾经建议,试点区域至少选择四个,包括一个大城市社区,安省北部和南部各选一个,再加一个原住民社区,参加对象则是这些试点区内生活在贫困线以下的人士及家庭。看来省府最后将试点区缩减为三个,将汉密尔顿作为大城市社区,从分布来看,则是西有汉密尔顿,东有林赛,北有雷湾,基本照顾到各大地理区域。

韦恩表示,在这个为期三年的试验计划中,省府将给生活在低收入状况下的单身人士每年发放$17,000,虽然这笔钱说不上奢侈,但将对人们的生活产生真正的影响。安省希望通过这个试验计划来测试基本收入项目对低收入人士及家庭的实际影响及效果。

省长韦恩去年任命前参议员Hugh Segal对基本收入试点的相关方案进行研究,后者分别在去年11月和今年1月主持系列公听会议,以征求各阶层和团体对基本收入试点计划的意见。全省有35,000多人或出席了公听会,或参与了网络调查。在两场正式的咨询会之后,对究竟发多少钱有了原则性的意见和建议。

在发放金额标准上,受邀参与咨询的人士原则上同意,基本收入的确定至少让参与者足以脱贫。但在具体数额上则存在分歧:在Hugh Segal向省府提出的报告中,曾经建议采用家庭低收入标准来确定基本收入的金额。而低收入衡量标准则相当于2016年安省低收入单身人士年收入的中位数,也就是$22,653/年。如果是家庭,则根据家庭成员的数量再进行调整。

参与咨询的人士认可这个大原则,但在采用家庭收入中位数的75%(低方案),或是100%(高方案)的问题上有分歧。若以单身人士为例,如果按75%,接受基本收入的该人士每月可拿$1,416;如果提高到100%,那么每月就可以拿到$1,888,一年下来则可以拿到$22,656。

显然,省府采纳了75%的低方案而不是100%的高方案,即单身人士每月可拿$1,416,一年12个月则是$16,992,化成整数就是韦恩今天所宣布的$17,000。按照相关规定,这项福利不必交税。

此外,公听会上参与者一致赞同,在决定基本收入的金额时,应对有孩家庭、以及残疾人士给予额外照顾。比如就残疾人士而言,他们每年可在基本收入的基础上,再多领$500。但省长韦恩今天没有提到这个细节。

不过前参议员Segal曾经提到,基本收入将代替现行的安省工作计划(Ontario Works)和安省残障资助项目( Ontario Disability Support Program),但会比这两个福利项目更慷慨一些,获得基本收入的人士及家庭也不会受到类似这两个福利项目条条框框的限制或监管。

安省自由党政府在2015年的预算中已经列出基本收入试点的开支,每年耗资$2,500万,三年则是$7,500万。

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Premier Kathleen Wynne announced Monday a plan to study basic income in Ontario, in a three-year pilot project based in Hamilton, Lindsay and Thunder Bay.

The province will explore the effectiveness of providing a basic income — no matter what — to people who are currently living on low incomes, "whether they are working or not," Wynne said.

Wynne said the pilot will provide the basic income to 4,000 households chosen from applicants invited "randomly" by the province in the coming weeks.

A single person could receive up to about $17,000 a year, minus half of any income he or she earns. A couple could receive up to $24,000 per year. People with disabilities could receive up to $6,000 more per year.

"People are anxious about their jobs; they're anxious about their futures," she said. "They're worried about the soaring costs of renting or buying a place to live."

People are especially concerned for those who don't start out wealthy, she said.

"Many people are concerned about what the world is promising for their kids," she said. "It's a world of global competition, reduced benefits, more and more part-time employment."



'We need to address the concerns of those who worry about falling behind, even as they work so hard to get ahead.'- Kathleen Wynne, Ontario premier
The premier said the three-year project will start with people making "just under $17,000 a year, but even that amount may make a real difference to someone who is striving to reach for a better life.

"We have chosen these communities intentionally because they are the right size and they have the right mix of population," Wynne said.

"We need to address the concerns of those who worry about falling behind, even as they work so hard to get ahead."

The amount is not "extravagant," she said, but it sends a message:

"It says to them, 'government is with you; the people of Ontario are with you,'" she said.

4,000 households to be studied
Joining Wynne were Minister of Community and Social Services Helena Jaczek and Chris Ballard, the minister responsible for the province's poverty reduction strategy.

Jaczek said that people in the program will be randomly contacted from each region's low-income population and invited to apply.

The program will cost $50 million a year for each of the three years and 4,000 households will participate. That will include 1,000 people from the Hamilton, Brantford and Brant regions.



People who receive medical and dental benefits from the province under other welfare programs would not have to give those up.

The ministers have been spearheading the province's effort to experiment with basic income. The strategy for reducing poverty involves "a system of automatic transfers for those beneath an income threshold," according to a discussion paper on the topic commissioned by Wynne and the ministers last summer.

The province has said it will launch the pilot project providing money to low-income households with no strings attached.

'There's so much poverty'


Elizabeth McGuire chairs the Campaign for Adequate Welfare and Disability in Hamilton and said after the speech she was "blown away" and pleased the program would launch in Hamilton.

"Because there's so much poverty here in the city. And we have so many neighbourhoods which are so clearly defined but are yet so economically depressed because of the loss of manufacturing," she said. "There's no solution other than basic income, but I didn't believe the government was hearing us."

She said Wynne's announcement was the government doing "the right thing."

CBC Hamilton's Kelly Bennett covered the announcement live. On mobile and can't see the updates below? Click here.
 

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