By Ron Anicich The life of a disability benefit recipient is a life of legislated poverty. We are forced to survive on $1300 a month. It all goes to pay our exorbitant rents and...
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Fight for adequate disability benefit a bellwether struggle for the cost-of-living crisis
By Jane McKenzie The most recent data from Statistics Canada reports that, as of 2022, eight million people in Canada aged 15 and older have one or more disabilities that limit their daily activities....
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New Brunswick Common Front calls for big boost to social assistance rates
PV staff This summer, Maytree published the 2022 edition of its Welfare in Canada report which provides information about households receiving social assistance last year, broken down by province and territory. In 2021, 2.8...
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