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N.S. Court of Appeal says province can’t deny people in tents enhanced income support
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CityNews Toronto
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday that the province cannot refuse enhanced income support to unhoused people living in tents.
The case wound through the assistance appeal board and landed at the Nova Scotia Supreme Court.
There, a judge agreed Lowe’s tent disqualified him from the enhanced assistance rate.
Wednesday’s Appeal Court ruling said that was wrong, and ordered the province and the assistance appeal board to pay Lowe’s estate $3,000.
“He was, therefore, entitled to receive enhanced rate assistance at the time of his application in October 2023.”