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Spending program

Income Assistance

Department of Indigenous Services · Indigenous services and reconciliation

Headline figures

Fiscal year 2024–25

$1.4B

3.4% of Indigenous services and reconciliation spending in 2024–25.

Down $180M from $1.6B in 2023–24.

$46.44per tax filer$33.81per person

Per tax filer uses 29,965,100 tax filers (2023, the latest count published); per person uses a population of 41,162,593 (2024). 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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