Les contrôles à l'aide sociale: l'expérience québécoise des visites à domicile

James Iain Gow, Alain Noël and Patrick Villeneuve

Canadian Public Policy, 1995, vol. 21, issue 1, 31-52

Abstract: Each year since 1986, between 100,000 and 135,000 households of Quebec welfare recipients have been visited by welfare inspectors, without any prior evidence of fraud. Yet, we know very little about the relevance and meaning of such controls. Following a review of the Quebec debate on this question, we try to evaluate the relevance of home visitations given the government's objectives, which focus on the reduction of errors and fraud. Since from this strictly administrative point of view, the results appear dubious, we also analyse the broader political meaning of the operation.

Date: 1995
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