The application process is now open for provincial lower-income workers who support some of the most vulnerable to access a wage boost. Saskatchewan Temporary Wage Supplement Program is designed to carry key workers through the difficulties of the pandemic.

For each eligible worker, the temporary wage supplement is $400 for each four-week period, up to 16 weeks, for the period from March 15, 2020 to July 4, 2020.  To be eligible, a worker must earn a wage less than $24.00 per hour at an eligible essential care facility, in the four-week period for which the worker has applied for the supplement.

Workers may apply for the supplement if they work in one of the following care facilities:

  • Public and private senior care homes;
  • Community-based group and personal care homes;
  • Licensed childcare facilities;Emergency shelters;
  • Transition shelters (short stay/emergency, transition housing);
  • Integrated healthcare facilities;
  • and Home-care workers providing care to seniors in their own homes.

Full or part time employees are eligible and includes anyone employed by an eligible facility, such as care workers, cooks, housekeepers, janitors and administrative staff. Cost-shared with the federal government, the new wage supplement is available to an estimated 35,000 lower-income workers at essential care facilities across Saskatchewan.

Information is available at www.saskatchewan.ca/wage-supplement-program or by calling 800-667-6102 or emailing stwsp@gov.sk.ca