Recipients under social assistance programs
The statistics for social assistance programs recipients for January 2010 are now available.
"In January 2010, a total of 337,250 households relied on last-resort financial programs, a increase of 5 963 households (
+1,8 %) compared with the figure for January 2009. Last year, in January 2009, it was a decrease of -3 373
(
-1,0 %)".
Related document
Official social assistance statistics are also available in the Québec government’s official statistic database (BDSO), which can be found on the Web site of the Institut de la statistique du Québec (link to external site.). Click the link below to access the database.
