Dr. Karina Doorley:

For the first time this year, we showed policy effects by disability status as well. That was actually one of the groups that came out as not seeing a reduction in the poverty rate, once you exclude temporary measures. In the permanent changes to the tax and welfare system, the elderly and people with disabilities emerged with a slight increase in their at-risk-of-poverty rate when compared with others. All the other changes were very marginal. They were either at zero or were very small reductions. The child poverty reduction was the biggest, at 0.5%. Therefore, really, these are very small. The increase in the at-risk-of-poverty rate for the population with a disability was small as well. It was approximately 0.5% as well. However, it is a difference across groups that may have been unintended. We hope it was unintended.