An advocacy group is calling on the federal government to invest in working-age single adults, who they say are experiencing the highest rates of poverty in Canada.
A Canadian anti-poverty advocacy group says single working-age adults account for half of those living in “deep poverty” and therefore need more government tax credits to account for their situation.
The group is calling on the federal government to implement what it would call the “Canada Working-Age Supplement” — a refundable tax credit for single working-age adults living in poverty. Doing so could reduce poverty among 3.1 million low-income, working-age single people in Canada, they claim. “Instead of lifting working-age single adults above the poverty line, our current social assistance system keeps them trapped below it through woefully inadequate monthly payments and the clawing back of payments when individuals earn income,” stated the report.
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