N.S. launches review after family cut off

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government has launched a review of its welfare caseload following a court ruling that found the province was wrong to cut off social assistance benefits to a family of four because the father didn’t try hard enough to find a job.

The province’s Appeal Court, in a decision released Wednesday, said the mother and her three children should not have been disqualified for six weeks because the father skipped an appointment with an employment counsellor.