Current Legal Challenges

In addition to law reform and community development, ISAC conducts test case litigation and challenges under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Our litigation efforts focus on systemic problems relating to provincial and federal income security programs.

Here are some of the cases we are currently working on:

Legal Challenge to the NCBS Clawback from families on social assistance

Since the implementation of the Canada Child Tax Benefit (CCTB) by the federal government in July 1998, the province of Ontario has deducted the National Child Benefit Supplement (NCBS) portion of this benefit from income assistance paid to families with children who are receiving social assistance. ISAC is representing three individuals in a Charter challenge to this deduction (commonly referred to as the “NCBS Clawback”) that was filed in December 2004...

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