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Penalized for working? Disabled lose 50 cents on every dollar earned
Monday, May 23rd, 2011
May 23 2011
Earning rules and administrative practices are one of the reasons why those who rely on Ontario’s welfare system for the disabled are 11 times more likely to be unemployed than the average Ontarian, says a new report by advocates for the mentally ill… just 11 per cent on the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) are working… The report, “What Stops Us From Working?” calls on Queen’s Park to allow those receiving ODSP to earn up to $300 a month with no clawbacks for one year and to be able to reconcile earnings annually rather than monthly.
Tags: budget, disabilities, ideology, participation, pensions, poverty
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Ontario Works can be cruel, punishing system
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
May 21, 2011
I am extremely appalled and concerned that there has not been much attention, or mention, of child poverty, senior poverty, social programs and especially provincial disability programs, which are my target. Provincial disability, a part of Ontario Works, is an exceptionally mean, cruel, punishing system. The system treats the people and families on it as liars and sub-standard Canadian citizens. We are questioned and treated as though we are in jail or out on a parole system.
Tags: disabilities, featured, ideology, participation, poverty
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Ontario retaining right to veto sale of public housing
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
Apr 20 2011
The Liberal government’s new housing legislation requires all municipalities to have affordable housing plans with goals and timetables. And it gives municipalities more flexibility to meet those goals. But advocates said the law, introduced last December as part of the McGuinty government’s long-awaited affordable housing strategy, when too far when it eliminated the requirement of provincial consent for selling housing… The province’s decision to retain ministerial consent may thwart Ootes’ decision earlier this month to sell 22 single-family homes owned by the housing company.
Tags: homelessness, housing, ideology, poverty, privatization, standard of living
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Time to thaw out Ontario’s poverty reduction promise
Monday, March 28th, 2011
Mar 28 2011
We’re hoping for progress on four priorities for action articulated by the 25 in 5 Network for Poverty Reduction: • Ensure no one falls through the cracks in times of need. • Invest in people, their skills, and their efforts to secure work. • Ensure jobs are a pathway out of poverty. • Create infrastructure for opportunity… But many of the problems that poor Ontarians face can and should be fixed, right now… Ontarians want leadership on poverty reduction.
Tags: budget, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Ontario’s budget should target poverty
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
Mar 23 2011
many people are stuck in the same boat, enduring hunger in this affluent society, simply because they don’t have enough money to buy food… Community and faith groups are doing a tremendous job in alleviating the problem through their food bank and meal programs. However, they cannot meet the enormous need, and moreover, we need to work toward a society where people can meet their own food needs, with dignity… one measure that would make an immediate difference would be the introduction of a $100 per month healthy food supplement for social assistance recipients in the upcoming 2011 provincial budget.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, mental Health, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Hunger on the rise
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
Mar 24 2011
Monthly visits to food banks have jumped 28 per cent since the economic downturn in 2008, according to a new report by the Ontario Association of Food Banks. It does none of us any good to have more than 400,000 children, adults and seniors relying on the precarious generosity of strangers for such a basic need. The report notes that “recessions tend to expose the weak links in society.” The last few years have certainly exposed, yet again, the inadequacy of our social safety net.
Tags: Health, housing, ideology, mental Health, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Thousands miss out on government benefits
Thursday, February 17th, 2011
Feb 16 2011
Many people don’t get government benefits they’re entitled to because the rules are too complex… The Old Age Security pension… The Guaranteed Income Supplement… The Canada Pension Plan… government should: (1) Ensure that programs are clear and simple. (2) Simplify the application processes. (3) Improve outreach to raise awareness of programs and their eligibility rules.
Tags: disabilities, pensions, poverty, rights, standard of living, women
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Talk is cheap [cost of living increases to CPP & OAS]
Friday, December 31st, 2010
December 30, 2010
The CPP increase effective Jan. 1 is 1.7% or in dollars $25.83 per month, whereas the OAS and GIS benefits based on the same CPI will only increase 0.05% or in dollars $2.61 per month and $3.29 more per month for the GIS — giving a grand total to all of those seniors who only collect these two benefits of $ 5.90 per month… the mounting costs of food, electricity and heat are pushing thousands of seniors below Statistics Canada’s low-income cut-off… action should be taken instead of a lot of worthless chatting over the past three years.
Tags: budget, pensions, standard of living
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Pensions need reform, not more bickering
Monday, December 20th, 2010
Dec. 20, 2010
There are good reasons to support a supplement to the CPP… But if participation in a supplementary CPP is voluntary, new enrolment may be slow. And the brunt of the burden of the payroll tax increase needed to create a supplementary CPP would be paid by working Canadians with low and moderate incomes… but the federal idea of pooled plans will, by being run through employers who can easily connect with their staff, likely create more actual savers.
Tags: ideology, pensions, privatization, standard of living
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Welfare rules forcing people into destitution, report finds
Monday, December 13th, 2010
Dec. 13, 2010
It is tougher to get welfare in Canada today than during the economic downturn of the early 1990s, the National Council of Welfare says in its latest report. That’s because Ontario and most other provinces force people to drain their bank accounts and spend all of their savings before they qualify for help, says the report, released in Ottawa Monday. As a result, it is almost impossible for those living on welfare to get back on their feet, says the council, created by Ottawa in 1969 to advise the minister of human resources on poverty in Canada.
Tags: featured, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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