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Family Allowance Act

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a federal act, passed in 1944, which provides for the payment of a monthly allowance to the parents or trustees of each child under sixteen years of age, later amended to continue such payments to eighteen, provided that the child remains in school, this payment being known as the youth allowance.

See: Family Allowance,youth allowance,Canada Child Tax Benefit

Quotations

1945

. . . at every [HBC] post visited, arrangements were made for the distribution of benefits under the Family Allowance Act.

1964

. . . in August 1944, parliament had passed the Family Allowance Act ordaining that the parents or trustees of all children under 16 years of age, whether Eskimo, Indian, or white, should receive a monthly allowance.