Seniors Have Plenty, Feds Say

Official figures grossly misrepresent the actual number of poor seniors in Canada, says a confidential Department of Finance memo. The true number is about half, and possibly as little as a fifth of what Statistics Canada claims, according to the memo obtained through Access To Information: “Statistics overestimate the actual number of seniors living in low income”.

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