The 2025 Alberta budget projects a total $77 million decrease for the AISH program over the next 3 years.
The 2025 Alberta budget cuts funding for the Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH) program by $49 million in 2025, and projects further cuts in the coming years.
Funding for the AISH program in 2025-26 sits at $1.641 billion, a net decrease of $49 million from the 2024-25 third quarter forecast of $1.690 billion. Targets for following years project a further $22 million dollar decrease in 2026-27, and a $6 million decrease in 2027-28.
There are currently over 77,000 Albertans receiving AISH.
Reasons for the changes were due to caseload growth, benefit rate increases of two per cent, and the anticipated contributions of the federal Canada Disability Benefit, which launches in July 2025.
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