Sentences with phrase «governing social assistance»

For example, people on low incomes are forced to live within the parameters of a legal regime that governs their social assistance or unemployment insurance payments.

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Note that other Quebec and Canadian laws, such as those that govern income tax, legal aid and social assistance, treat common - law partners the same as married spouses.

Policy Generally speaking, the legal framework for thinking about child rearing creates a strong presumption in policy that favors parents» rights to raise their children.6 This attitude is reflected in three major pieces of social legislation governing the nation's child welfare system: the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, and the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997.7