A new report shows that more than 10,000 Toronto residents living in poverty are not accessing the Old Age Security pension they are eligible for.
The report, conducted by the Wellesley Institute, a non-profit research group in Toronto, and Open Policy Ontario, a provincial social policy consultancy, compared the rates of seniors eligible for the pension with the rates of those actually receiving it. The report found that new immigrants and people with limited English or French skills are most likely to be missing out on the pension.