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Income and Employment Supports Act

Published Date: January 01, 2019
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Part 2 Income Support and Health and Training Benefits (Sections 5-18)

Division 1 Income Support and Benefits (Sections 5-6)

Section 5 Income support and benefits provided

  1. A Director may, subject to this Act and the regulations, provide to a household unit eligible under section 6 for income support and benefits any one or more of the following income support payments and benefits:
    1. core income support payments determined in accordance with this Act and the regulations;
    2. supplementary income support payments determined in accordance with this Act and the regulations;
    3. any other income support payments or benefits determined in accordance with this Act and the regulations.
  2. The amount or value of income support and benefits that may be provided under this Division to or for the use of an eligible household unit is the difference between
    1. the budgetary requirements of the household unit determined in accordance with the regulations, and
    2. the financial resources available to the household unit determined in accordance with the regulations.


Section 5.1 Amount of income support payments

  1. This section applies to the following income support payments:
    1. the core essential payment portion of the core income support payment;
    2. the core shelter payment portion of the core income support payment;
    3. supplementary income support payments.
  2. The amount of an income support payment referred to in subsection (1) is
    1. Effective January 1, 2019, the amount set out in the Schedule, or determined in accordance with the Schedule, and 
    2. Subject to the Schedule, effective January 1, 2020, an amount adjusted annually on the CPI adjustment date in accordance with the Schedule.
  3. A new CPI adjustment date may be set under the regulations if the new date does not result in more than 12 months between adjustments of income support payments.
  4. Despite subsection (2)(b), an income support payment referred to in subsection (1) must not be adjusted under this section in a CPI adjustment year if the change in the Alberta CPI applicable to that year is a negative number.
  5. Despite subsections (2) and (4), the amount of an income support payment may be increased at any time in accordance with the regulations.