Aid households, financial assistance, number of

Households that have received financial assistance during the year, number. As a household counts: single with or without children at home, cohabiting with or without children at home. Cohabiting partners are treated as cohabiting partners, registered partners, spouses or spouses. At-home children over 18 years of age who do not attend high school and other adults living in the home, such as grandparents, form their own households. Financial assistance is the concept that covers all financial assistance under the Social Services Act. Income support is part of the financial assistance and relates to the most costly and regularly recurring costs of living.