The Liberal government put out an announcement today that they intend to hold the vote on Budget 2024 imminently.
This comes as disability activists and supporters are still reeling from the devastating news that despite five years of promises, consultations, and reassurances that the federal government wanted to “get it right”, we have been tricked by a government so cruel that it appears to have used the consultations to find out exactly what would harm starving, medication- and housing-insecure disabled people the most – and then did exactly those things in Budget 2024:
*Locking the benefit behind the impossible-to-get federal Disability Tax Credit
*Means-testing the $200 by household income
*Allocating far too little funding (covers only 600 000 disabled people when there are over a million of us) far too late (imagine if CERB for the middle class only started next July?)
In light of this, our core demand for Budget 2024 is reasonable and on par with how workers who qualified for CERB were treated:
*$2000 issued to every person currently on provincial social assistance rolls (no means-testing, no administrative barriers)
*Into our bank accounts/payable to us within 5-10 business days
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