This is a test.  Using this information you can find out if you are poor 
or not.  To take this test you need to know how big a city or town you 
live in, the number of people in your family unit and the family's yearly 
income.

These figures are the National Council of Welfare Estimates of Statistics 
Canada Low Income Cut-offs for 1995.  Statistics Canada will likely say 
that your family is poor if you are getting less than the amount shown 
for your family and location here in the year 1995.  This is the latest 
information I have at the moment; but I will update it as soon as I can.

Family  Cities of    100.000-   30,000-   less than    Rural	
Size	500,000+     499,999    99,999    30,000       Areas

1	$15,758	     $13,841	$13,521	  $12,326      $10,728

2	 21,359       18,762     18,328    16,706       14,543

3        27,150       23,848     23,296    21,235       18,484

4        31,261       27,454     26,822    24,451       21,281

5        34,154       29.997     29,305    26,714       23,252

6        37,075       32,559     31,808    28,996       25,238

7+       39,874       35,022     34,214    31,189       27,146


Vancover is column one.  Victoria is column two.

If you are a family of four people living in Victoria and getting 
less per year than $27,454 dollars you are a poor family.

A single person living in Victoria who gets less than $13,841 in a poor 
person.   It is interesting to not that a single employable person on 
welfare in Victoria gets $6,000 per year.  Only $7,841 dollars below the 
poverty line.