Nova Scotia's Inflation-Based Aid

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Nova Scotia food banks

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Starting this year, income assistance in N.S. to be pegged to consumer price index

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Feed Nova Scotia is providing food to more than 23,000 people in need every month .

The head of a non-profit that supplies 140 Nova Scotia food banks says the province’s decision to index income assistance to inflation doesn’t go far enough.

The province says income assistance rates are to rise this year by 3.1 per cent .

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