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Low Income
Individuals or families whose annual income falls within the "low income cut-offs" (LICOs) as defined by Statistics Canada. LICOs are intended to convey the income level at which a family may be in straitened circumstances because it has to spend a greater portion of its income on the basics (food, clothing and shelter) than does the average family of similar size. LICOs vary by family size and by size of community.
The above terms and definitions are part of the Taxonomy of Human Services, used here by permission of INFO LINE of Los Angeles.