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New Initiatives to Ensure Funding For Eligible Income Support Clients Joan Marie Aylward, Minister of Human Resources and Employment, announced today that her department will take steps to ensure funding for eligible income support clients. The department is developing an early detection, prevention and compliance process. It will initiate several new measures, which will help ensure income support will only be provided to people who are deserving of and entitled to benefits. "The program will be developed to ensure that only eligible clients receive Income Support with a thrust towards early intervention and prevention," said the minister. A voluntary disclosure procedure will be initiated to allow clients an amnesty period during which they may correct information on their files without fear of prosecution. A 1-800 line will be implemented to provide opportunity for the reporting of allegations of client misinformation which will be linked directly to the Investigations Branch. The Department of Human Resources and Employment is committed to the development of a prevention, compliance and enforcement practice which will maintain public confidence in the Income Support Program by further reducing fraud and abuse. An integral part of this procedure will be an Early Detection and Prevention Program to promote an understanding that the true measure of effectiveness is the absence of fraud, not the visible evidence of the after-the-fact enforcement actions. Contact: Glenn Bruce, (709) 729-4062.
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