Tag: Personal finance
Number of Canadians with pension plans jumped by 300K. Are you one of them? – National
An additional 293,500 Canadians enrolled as members of a registered pension plan in 2023, Statistics Canada data released Tuesday showed. According to a StatCan report, the number of Canadians who were active members of a registered pension plan (RPP) grew by 4.2 per cent to a total of roughly 7.2 million in 2023. Of these,…
Big changes are being proposed for a US food aid program. Here’s a breakdown by the numbers
President Donald Trump’s plan to cut taxes by trillions of dollars could also trim billions in spending from social safety net programs, including food aid for lower-income people. The proposed changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program would make states pick up more of the costs, require several million more recipients to work or lose…