Province enhancing Second Career program to assist unemployed residents of Mississauga, Brampton, and Ontario
Published July 13, 2021 at 3:33 pm
The Province has announced it’s expanding the Second Career program, which was launched towards the start of the pandemic.
The program helps those who are unemployed or have been laid off pay for the tuition and other expenses associated with training programs of 52 weeks in duration or less, including university and college courses, micro-credential programs and other vocational training programs.
To date, more than 100 residents of Mississauga have benefitted from the program, on which the Province intends to build.
As of Tuesday (July 13), the Province is streamlining the application process, so those out of work don’t need to provide burdensome amounts of documentation to get funding.
Additionally, the weekly basic living support for rent, mortgage and other expenses is being increased to $500 per week, while the transportation and child care supports are being enhanced to more realistically reflect the current costs.
The maximum amount of funding Ontarians enrolled in the Second Career program can expect to receive is $28,000.
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“Increasing support for laid-off and unemployed workers is key to our mission of spreading opportunity more fairly and widely,” Monte McNaughton, Minister of Labour, Training and Skills Development, said in a news release.
“No worker will be left behind in our recovery. Through improvements like these, our single focus is on giving hardworking men and women the tools they need to start a good job and make a better living for themselves and their families,” he continued.
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