Canadian able bodied single person. Welfare payment per year. $12,144.
Refugee claimant. $28,920
Canadian senior citizen basic payment CPP and old age pension. $12,144
A difference of about $16,778 more for the refugee. I might add that the Canadian citizen who has worked thirty or forty years at low wages is the hardest hit. Different if they worked for an industry or the civil service and had a retirement pension.
A slight discrepancy in my welfare payments for a single able bodied person is a bit less that $12,144, I am told in Ontario it is $941 per month $11292. A years total.