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2024 09 22 | journal
Canada Gazette, Part I, Volume 158, Number 26: Canada Disability Benefit Regulations
I only found out about this last night, but there’s still through September 23rd to fill it in. The following are the comments I left in the general box. It seemed the easiest way to go about it. Feel free to copy and paste these and use them yourself.
The heinous handling of the benefit by the Liberal government that outright ignored recommendations and put in print an outright violation of the promise to lift disabled people out of poverty is noxious in the extreme. You don’t need me to tell you that this should have been handled better, and a lot sooner, but here’s what needs to be done AT LEAST:
- remove the DTC as a qualifier
- do not tie the payouts to family income levels
- remove all age limits
- allow caregivers to access the funds to assist in taking care of disabled children and other disabled dependants
- find a way to force the provinces not to clawback
- ensure the federal government itself doesn’t clawback other supports such as CPPD, OAS, etc.
- provide an amount for all recipients that is sufficient to meet, at the very least, basic needs
- the provided amount to be tied to the yearly inflation rates for increases
- the provided amount to be no less than what was determined acceptable for CERB’s monthly payout
- provide no less than six months worth of full benefits as a non-taxable, non-clawed back single payment in order to compensate for some of the pain and suffering disabled people have experienced due to Liberal delay and egregious broken faith with the disabled community
- turn the DTC into a cash benefit, or, at the very least, allow each person who qualifies to choose each year whether they’ll use it as it currently works or to receive it as a cash payment (either in whole or what remains after its been used as it currently is used)