Even that is NOT a lot in this day and age. That's $2640 a month gross. Rent will easily eat up a 1/3 of that and groceries five - six hundred which adds up to over half. Even riding the city bus 5 days a week comes to another $100 a month, hydro and heating another two or three hundred, so there's very little left over for all the other things like clothing, laundry, personal hygiene and recreational activities where something as simple as bowling can run you $70 a month. With kids there are all kinds of school and activity fees.
I was being sarcastic there JLM. I volunteer with the homeless - It's is very bad now and getting worse by the month. The money laundering real estate thing just doubled the local rents over the last three years around here. The Sallyanne hands out tents now.
Here in "Playland" ( a local radio station calls it that) welfare pays about 650 a month for a single male. A disabled person gets about 1200 a month. The average rent for a one bedroom, if you can find one, is from 950 ( A motel room) to 1200 a month PLUS heat and hydro usually. 2600 plus is about right for a three bedroom duplex.
Worse, if a person doesn't have a place, the street allowance is all a person gets, and that is welfare without the rent part, so about 300 of that 650 is all they receive.
