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NDP urges extended sick benefits
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
June 8, 2010
The federal NDP wants the Conservative government to extend EI benefits to people suffering from chronic or long-term illnesses such as cancer. People already get 15 weeks of EI sick benefits but NDP MP Fin Donnelly says that needs to be extended to 52 weeks and is introducing a private member’s bill to compel the federal government to act… Donnelly said the chronically ill slip into poverty when they fall ill because they can’t afford their bills or mortgages when their EI runs out.
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