Advocacy toolkit: Preventing Canada Disability Benefit clawbacks
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Published on July 17, 2024
The Canada Disability Benefit (CDB) is intended to help people with disabilities. Tell your provincial or territorial representative to change social assistance regulations to prevent the CDB from clawing back social assistance.
Download the toolkit by jurisdiction
Further resources to help you engage with government
Introduction to the toolkit
It is essential that provinces and territories exempt the CDB from clawing back social assistance. This modification requires governments to add the CDB to the list of exempt unearned sources of income in the social assistance regulations. However, by default, social assistance will be clawed back if no action is taken.
To ensure that people with disabilities will receive the full value of the CDB, we need to request meetings with and advocate to provincial/territorial ministers, influential politicians, and senior civil servants.
This toolkit contains several documents meant to help you advocate and engage with government decision-makers to prevent clawbacks related to the new CDB in your province or territory. The documents are designed to be used together but may be used individually if it better suits your needs. We also encourage you to tailor the documents to your organization.
The toolkit contains:
Instruction sheet on how to use the toolkit
Contact list and FAQ that can be used by all jurisdictions
Letter to government that you can send to the government official with a clear call-to-action
Meeting handout that you can hand to the person you’re meeting with and talking to
Talking points that you can use to prepare for your meetings with decision-makers
Flyer that you can use to inform the public and for a general campaign
Social media shareables that you can use on your preferred social media channel
Maytree policy brief on benefit interaction that you can use for background reading
Download the toolkit by jurisdiction
Note: The files are downloadable as a ZIP folder. To make them your own, please download and expand the folder on your hard drive. If you have problems accessing the files, please contact us at info@maytree.com.
Jurisdictions that have committed to prevent the Canada Disability Benefit from clawing back social assistance are marked. The toolkit is not needed for them.
Manitoba*
New Brunswick – English
New Brunswick – French
Newfoundland and Labrador*
Nova Scotia*
Nunavut*
Quebec – French
*COMMITTED to prevent Canada Disability Benefit clawbacks. For more information, access the CDB Clawback Map by Disability Without Poverty.
Further resources to help you engage with government
Refer to the following sources for tips on how to engage decision-makers in your advocacy work:
Lobbying is not a dirty word… | The Ontario Nonprofit Network
Sparking Change: 3 Ways to Engage in Advocacy | Imagine Canada
Frequently asked questions
What is the Canada Disability Benefit?
https://maytree.com/publications/advocacy-toolkit-preventing-canada-disability-benefit-clawbacks/?mc_cid=1aa529f7b5&mc_eid=de33f0d3f7#:~:text=Advocacy%20toolkit%3A%20Preventing,on%20the%20CDB%3F
What are clawbacks?
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Have other provinces and territories committed to not clawing back the CDB?
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What is the difference between a refundable tax credit and a benefit? How does this impact CDB clawbacks?
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Where can I find the poverty rate by disability status by province or territory?
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What is total welfare income?
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Where can I find official government documents on the CDB?
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Advocacy toolkit: Preventing Canada Disability Benefit clawbacks
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