The county will have to fork out around $400,000 to keep the Community Start-Up Benefit going another year. The province has decided to stop funding the benefit which helps low income families across Oxford County. Manager of Social Services Paul Beaton says cutting the service would have a negative impact on these families. "The Community Start-Up Benefit is used to assist people when they move out of emergency shelters, when they want to move to other communities for employment, or when they need to move or delay eviction. This benefit's been a mandatory benefit under the Ontario Works Program and as of January 1st it'll no longer exist." The benefit use to be cost shared with the province. Oxford County will now have to pay 100% of the benefit if they want to keep it going.

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