Birth Certificate and Employment Social Development Canada

social insurance numbers: The process is similar to the way the government assigns newborn Canadians a social insurance number by doing so through the provinces when a birth certificate is registered, a program dubbed "SIN Γåò Birth." That system in Ontario, for instance, cost $5 million to set up, according to CTV. The audit, publicly posted late last month, suggests a similar system for new Canadians would cost about the same. The idea auditors pushed would take two pilot projects that help new landed immigrants apply for social insurance numbers and expand them nationwide to more easily process hundreds of thousands of applications a year. The department responsible, Employment and Social Development Canada, says it is studying the idea and a decision about whether to move ahead should be made by November. But the information used for those citizenship documents needs to be sound, and the audit suggests there remain a few opportunities for errors that could cost the government money or be an annoyance to a social insurance number holder. Aside from the savings, the auditors who reviewed the social insurance number program said a one-stop shop for new Canadians to apply for citizenship documents along with a SIN would limit the chances for mistakes. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.