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Warrants
Overview
Effective: June 01, 2010
Applicants or recipients who have an outstanding arrest warrant(s) issued under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Canada) or any other enactment of Canada in relation to an offence that may be prosecuted by indictment, may not be eligible for income assistance, hardship assistance, disability assistance or supplementary assistance.
Warrant holders who are under the age of 18 years, or are pregnant, or have reached the end stage of a life-threatening disease or illness are exempt from ministry consequences in relation to outstanding arrest warrants and may be eligible for assistance.
If an adult in a family unit has an outstanding arrest warrant, the remaining family members may still be eligible for assistance.
While dealing with an outstanding warrant, individuals and families may be eligible for repayable assistance if they can demonstrate undue hardship. This assistance will be provided for three months, with the possibility of three additional months in exceptional circumstances.
Applicants or recipients who want to address an outstanding arrest warrant can request repayable assistance to cover the least expensive, cost appropriate transportation for the warrant holder (and their family members as applicable) to return to the jurisdiction that issued the warrant.
Applicants or recipients are required to report if they have an outstanding arrest warrant and to consent to a third party check that may be conducted by the Ministry of Justice for the purpose of determining or verifying whether an individual has an outstanding arrest warrant.
