It just keeps getting worse and worse for disabled people
Speaking as a family of three who are permanently disabled with no relatives and no other support $200 a month ain’t gonna cut it. Our combined taxable income is $17k a year. Try living on that. Canada just needs to decide whether it’s gonna take care of It’s disabled or ship them off to the camps because living like this is not healthy or humane.
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They don’t want housing prices to fall, which affects every poor person regardless of disability or not. We simply fell for it again as Trudeau said the same thing, the Liberals will lie every time to get elected.
The newly created Canada Disability Benefit is a start, which is in addition to other benefits.
But as the article points out, the “gotcha!” with these benefits is that it pays out based on income, rather than your gross income (after medical expenses).
More work is always needed when it comes to supporting the disabled, so I’m optimistic that we can move in the right direction with only a minority government.
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As a disabled person to qualify for the new disability benefit you must also qualify for the disability tax credit. Which has specific parameters to meet. If you are not severely disabled and have permanent issues with bodily functions or do not require supports you do not qualify. Period.
Yup, the DTC needs some changes. And disabled people shouldn’t have to suffer if their doctor is lazy or unwilling to sign the application.
For the number of disability groups who advocate for more funds, progress is going at a snail’s pace.
But to be honest, if we had a conservative federal government, we’d have disability supports taken away, not added to. We must keep fighting.
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