“British Columbia has a long way to go towards providing an adequate and dignified standard of living to persons with disabilities. In Toward Adequate Income Assistance for People with Disabilities in British Columbia, Broadbent policy fellow and Lansdowne Professor of Social Policy, Michael Prince, shows that despite a modest increase in the income assistance rate in 2016, persons with disabilities have seen a stealthy decline in assistance rates since 2007.

Current rates leave those on this assistance unable to meet the basic necessities of living. To tackle the systemic disadvantage and indignity facing persons with disabilities in BC, the report calls for a bold plan of social policy that can close the poverty gap and ensure BC’s income assistance system is the best in Canada by 2024.”

Read the paper here: http://www.broadbentinstitute.ca/adequate_income_assistance_bc

DABC has signed on to West Coast LEAF’s letter calling for BC leaders to commit to implementing the recent United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) recommendations.

The letter can be viewed here: http://www.westcoastleaf.org/stepup/

Since September 2016, DABC, Plan Institute and the BC Aboriginal Network on Disability Society (BCANDS) have been helping clients to access the Disability Tax Credit (DTC) and the Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP) through our Access RDSP program. Access RDSP is generously funded by the Vancouver Foundation.

For more info, download the poster or visit www.rdsp.com.