The program is presented by Family Services of Greater Vancouver and sponsored by Vancity. The series is designed to help participants increase their money management knowledge and confidence. In this 3-Session workshop series you will learn about:
Budgeting: Track your earning and spending and be in control of your money.
Banking: Choose the options that are right for you, reduce fees and save money.
Credit: Build and maintain a good credit history and deal with debt.
Consumerism: How to be in charge of your own spending.
Register early, space is limited. To sign-up, you must attend all three sessions.
COST: Free WHEN: Aug. 16; Aug. 23, Aug. 30 (all Tuesdays) TIME: 1pm- 3pm WHERE: Disability Alliance BC, #204- 456 West Broadway in Vancouver
REGISTER: Call Val at: 604-875-0188 or email: feedback@disabilityalliancebc.therightfitbc.org
Last July, thanks to generous funding from the Vancouver Foundation, Disability Alliance BC launched its provincial program Tax Assistance and Information for People with Disabilities (Tax AID DABC). The program’s focus is to help people receiving Persons with Disabilities (PWD) and Persons with Persistent and Multiple Barriers to Employment (PPMB) who have not filed their income taxes for multiple years to catch up on their taxes.
Over the past year, Tax AID DABC’s advocates have:
Helped over 277 clients to file multiple years of taxes
Filed over 730 years of taxes
Helped clients from across BC to access over $470,000 in tax credits and benefits
Answered hundreds of tax inquiries by email and over the phone
This year, we are expanding our provincial scope and will reach out to more communities across BC, particularly those in the North, the Interior, and Northern Vancouver Island. We can conduct remote tax filings for clients, or work with community groups to organize and deliver workshops across BC.
We welcome your referrals to Tax AID DABC. To speak to a Tax AID advocate, please call our Advocacy Access line at 604-872-1278 (Toll-free 1-800-663-1278) or email taxaid@disabilityalliancebc.therightfitbc.org.
Do you know your legal rights around disclosing your disability?
Through DABC projects, it’s become clear to us that many people with disabilities do not understand their legal rights and responsibilities around disclosure of their disability in the context of employment. We have created a new guide Disclosing Your Disability: A Legal Guide for People with Disabilities in BC to inform and assist people with disabilities. This valuable legal resource goes step-by-step through the planning and decision-making necessary when considering disclosure to an employer.
The guide is available online here: http://tinyurl.com/zg734c7. A limited amount of hard copies are also available. If you would like us to mail you a copy, please contact Val at 604-875-0188 or email feedback@disabilityalliancebc.therightfitbc.org.
We would like your feedback on the guide, through a short online survey. If you reply by July 6 /16, your name will be entered in a raffle for one of two $20 gift certificates for London Drugs or Starbucks. Take the survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YCK8XMD.
Thank you very much to the Law Foundation of BC for making this guide possible.
