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Kendall Worth and Robert Devet

Kendall Worth and Robert Devet

Nova Scotia Budget 2021: ‘Historic’ increase promises slightly less starving for income assistance recipients

Nova Scotia Budget 2021: ‘Historic’ increase promises slightly less starving for income assistance recipients

March 31, 2021

That ‘historic’ increase in income assistance really doesn’t amount to much, write journalists Kendall Worth and Robert Devet. Here’s why.

CERB rules leave income assistance recipients confused and worried

CERB rules leave income assistance recipients confused and worried

May 7, 2020 6 Comments

Last month Community Services told Income Assistance recipients who qualify that they must apply for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB). We are hearing that this decision has raised many questions and quite a bit of anxiety.

Some social assistance recipients qualify for CERB payments

Some social assistance recipients qualify for CERB payments

April 18, 2020 37 Comments

People who are receiving income assistance (IA) benefits and meet the program conditions can apply for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) and will receive the full $2000 monthly payment. Reporting by Robert Devet and Kendall Worth,

We’re friends, we’re just sharing a home. Residents fall victim to rooming house bylaw

We’re friends, we’re just sharing a home. Residents fall victim to rooming house bylaw

September 18, 2018 2 Comments

Nobody wants illegal rooming houses, but not every arrangement where people live communally is a rooming house. One such household in Dartmouth North has been told by the city that they are exceeding the allowed number of boarders, and that one of the residents has to leave.

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