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Spending program

Income Assistance

Department of Indigenous Services · Indigenous services and reconciliation

Headline figures

Fiscal year 2022–23

$1.3B

3.2% of Indigenous services and reconciliation spending in 2024–25.

Up $16.3M from $1.3B in 2021–22.

$45.54per tax filer$33.83per person

Per tax filer uses 28,934,120 tax filers (2022); per person uses a population of 38,945,628 (2022). An allocation of cost, not a tax bill.

Income Assistance, by fiscal year

Source and basis

  • GC InfoBase - Open Datasets, retrieved 2026-11-03. Open Government Licence - Canada.
  • Actual spending reported by the department for this program, reconciled to Public Accounts expenditures by vote. Includes operating costs, capital and payments to others.

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