Step 1 - Income Assistance

Here is the information you will need to collect to contact the Department of Social Development

Before you contact the Department of Social Development to see if you would be eligible to receive Income Assistance, you will need to collect some information about yourself and everyone living in your household. This is necessary because the Department of Social Development will ask you for this information when you contact them.

This includes the following information about yourself:

• Your mailing address
• Your residence address if it is different from your mailing address
• Your rental or mortgage cost

This will also include the following information about everyone living in your household, including yourself:

• Their first and last name
• Their birthdate
• Their Medicare number
• This Social Insurance Number (SIN)
• Their income
• Their assets