Assistance Recipients: Assistance and Training

assistance recipients: But social assistance is only a means to an end, he said, according to CBC. The long-term goal is to see people employed. About 14 families were already screened to receive financial aid under the provincial program come January, said Donald Arseneault, minister of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour. That why we invest in training opportunities and language training and so forth to get them into the work place as quickly as we can in order to avoid more social assistance recipients, he said. Federal assistance running out When the first Syrian refugees arrived in Canada in December 2015 those without financial resources or income of their own were eligible for a monthly federal allowance. If we are successful, that means they have a job. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.