It's a really important question. It will be an income-tested benefit as a poverty reduction measure—at least that's how we anticipate the eligibility criteria developing for this.
You have raised a really important point. We're developing this benefit on top of an incredibly complex system of benefits across the country, and that includes provincial and territorial social assistance. It includes private disability insurance programs and federal programs like programs for veterans and Canada pension plan disability. We have housing benefits that are outside of social assistance in provinces and territories, so we are layering this on and, when we look at this in the income testing, we really want to make sure that people are going to be better off at the end of the day.
We heard very clearly from the disability community that people with disabilities want to work. They're not always able to work and gainfully earn an income, and the design of this benefit needs to really take into consideration the interactions with other programs and benefits, look at making sure that we don't disincentivize work and look at the effective marginal tax rates and how they will affect people in terms of dollar per dollar and losing money at certain income thresholds.
That's a really complex piece of work that is going on. Trying to understand the various programs that exist in the provinces and territories has really been fundamental to that, and that has been a lot of the work we have done so far with provinces, really trying to understand how their income-tested programs are currently designed and how this benefit will sit on top of them and potentially interact with them.