My Week on Welfare
My Week on Welfare
2015, English. Directed by Jackie Torrens.
Award-winning documentarian – and former teenage welfare mother – Jackie Torrens explores stereotypes about welfare recipients by going back on welfare for a week. She finds out what the day-to-day reality of life is really like for people on income assistance in Nova Scotia in 2015. During her week-long stay, she discovers unexpected insights and encounters the complex issues facing those on the system. Produced by Peep Media, the team behind Edge of East.
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- 0h 45m
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My Week on Welfare isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 29 August 2015. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
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My Week on Welfare (2015) was directed by Jackie Torrens.