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Originally Posted by Fuzz
There is a new up to $200 a month payment from the feds for the disabled, but you have to qualify and meet income tests(which look to be fairly stringent). If your disability qualifies you, and you make so little survival is a challenge, you get the money. Except in Alberta, because Smith has decided since AISH pays out more than similar programs in other provinces, only AISH recipients will have that clawed back if the feds pay. Basically a way to take federal dollars back.
I haven't looked and compared provincial programs, but the reality is this is petty penny bull#### that exemplifies the cruelty of their point. And it's even grosser considering all the stuff they do waste money on that could have been cut instead, if the money was the point. But it's not. The cruelty is the point.
Imagine planning to have an extra $200 a month, the hopefulness of maybe being able to treat yourself to something small for the first time in a decade, or pay for a piece of equipment or medication that helps make your day just a little less ####, and then to have these ####os yank it back.
But hey, lightbulbs.
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Okay, stupid lightbulb quip aside because thats not getting old. I just did a quick search and...it appears that to be Eligible for this program at all, even from a Federal standpoint, you have to have a registered DTC regardless, so this doesnt look like an Alberta/UCP centric policy.
No DTC, no CDB, regardless of residency.
And I'm actually all for income testing it. With the loosening of regulations on the DTC I have clients who have been approved for all kinds of things both minor and major and are still perfectly capable of working and making a very good living.
That being said, I'd prefer income testing to be on a sliding scale, ie. if you're living off of AISH and that alone, maybe you should get more than $200/mo and if you're collecting AISH and working, maybe less.