Ontario Liberals promise to boost provincial top-up to Old Age Security
Del Duca says his party would lift the threshold to $25,000 for single seniors and $50,000 for couples, and add up to $1,000 to the annual total they receive through the program.He says the change is expected to cost the province about $250,000 a year, with more details to come when the party releases its fully costed platform.
“I know, based on all of the conversations that I’ve been having with seniors across this province that this is exactly the kind of help that that will set them up to have real dignity, to be safe and healthy at home,” Del Duca said in a news conference in Markham, Ont.
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