Identity area
Type of entity
Authorized form of name
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Provincial Benefits Branch
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Description area
Dates of existence
History
Effective January 1, 1974 the Provincial Benefits Branch replaced the Family Benefits Branch with expanded responsibilities for administering vocational rehabilitation and welfare assistance in unorganized areas of the province.
In 1975 vocational rehabilitation responsibilities were decentralized to District Offices. Further efforts to decentralize social service programs resulted in a 1979 reorganization where the functions of the Provincial Benefits Branch moved to the control of the Adult Services Division.
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Functions, occupations and activities
The major responsibility of the Provincial Benefits Branch was to administer the Family Benefits Act. The intention of the Family Benefits Act was to provide support to enable persons in need including aged, blind, disabled, permanently unemployable persons, mothers with dependent children and foster parents caring for foster children to maintain a basic living standard.
The Provincial Benefits Branch also administered the Vocational Rehabilitation Maintenance Allowances and General Welfare Assistance allowances in smaller unincorporated communities generally located in Northern Ontario.
Addtionally, the Branch provided services to assist in the enforcement of maintenance orders and the recovery of maintenance arrears for deserted spouses and also liased with Family Courts regarding enforcement procedures.
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Relationships area
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Rules and/or conventions used
RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)
Status
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM
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Script(s)
Sources
Ministry of Community and Social Services Annual Reports 1972-1979
Inventory 29, Records of the Ministry of Community and Social Services, revised 1998
Maintenance notes
Archivist(s):
Diamond