1979 January
Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH) is established by the Government of Alberta.1 AISH was the first program in Canada designed to support to people with permanent disabilities.2
1. Donna E. Wood, “Social Assistance in Alberta,” in Welfare Reform in Canada: Provincial Social Assistance in Comparative Perspective, eds. Daniel Béland and Pierre-Marc Daigneault (U.S.A: University of Toronto Press, 2015), 162.
2. Ibid., 162.