103 posts found for disability benefits

Last chance to sign the petition re: fast-tracking the Canada Disability Benefit!

January 7, 2022 by DABC

Close to 12,350 members of the public have signed a House of Commons petition, initiated by Disability Without Poverty, calling for:

  • Fast-tracking the design and implementation of the Canada Disability Benefit
  • Active and genuine involvement of disabled people every step of the way, from start to finish.

Sign the petition here: https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-3656.

Download the Fall/Winter 2021 Edition of Transition Magazine!

November 5, 2021 by DABC

Transition magazine cover. An image of a group of people standing, one is in the forefront holding a sign that says 'Why does disability have to mean poverty." Additional text: "Transition: The magazine of Disability Alliance BC. Ending Legislated Poverty' Top of page text: We Need a National Disability Benefit. Advocating for more humane benefits in BC. Disability Without Poverty Movement."

Download the Fall/Winter 2021 edition of Transition magazine here: https://disabilityalliancebc.therightfitbc.org/transitionfallwinter21web/!

The focus of this edition is Ending Legislated Poverty.

Our Transition team is always glad to receive feedback and to consider articles or creative work from our community partners and from people living with a disability. If you’d like to send along your ideas, we’d love to hear from you at transition@disabilityalliancebc.therightfitbc.org.

DABC asks for federal party platform response on the Canada Disability Benefit

September 8, 2021 by DABC

On September 7, 2021, DABC sent letters to the leaders of the Conservative, Green, Liberal, and New Democratic parties of Canada to seek their party’s platform response on the Canada Disability Benefit.

DABC is affiliated with Disability Without Poverty (DWP), which is a national movement led by people with disabilities who are committed to ensuring people with disabilities are involved in all stages of securing a Canada Disability Benefit from design to legislation to implementation. We have written to these four parties to ask if they will commit to implementing a Canada Disability Benefit in close consultation with the disability community as outlined in the five points below, should they be successful in forming government after September 20th, 2021:

“We respectfully request that your party make the following commitments:

  • Introduce legislation on a Canadian Disability Benefit and follow through on the promises of the previous government.
  • Establish a streamlined, easily accessible application process that can expand the benefit to ALL those eligible.
  • Implement an accelerated consultation process to also be authentic, which means people with lived experience must make up the majority of any policy design team.
  • Recognize a Disability Poverty Line above the Market Basket Measure, as not to do so would be to perpetuate the inequity faced by Canadians with disabilities.
  • Ensure that existing benefits for Canadians with disabilities continue alongside a new Canada Disability Benefit.”

DABC will share with our network any and all responses we may receive from these four parties.