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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/disability-advocates-applaud-federal-aid-1.5752671
Disability advocates applaud federal pandemic aid, but say payment should be higher
A one time payment of up to $600 will be sent to those who are eligible, at the end of October
· CBC News · Posted: Oct 07, 2020 7:00 AM AT
Murielle Pitre is the director of communications for the New Brunswick Coalition of Persons with Disabilities. She says the pandemic has brought extra costs for some disabled people. (Kate Letterick/CBC News )
As a disabled person, Murielle Pitre has dealt with extra costs throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
"You have like increased fees, deliveries and deliveries for food, the price of food is going up. I mean you're not going out so you can't seek out the bargains as much as you used to," she said.
Pitre is also the director of communications for the New Brunswick Coalition of People with Disabilities.
She's heard from many people who are paying more for everything from transportation to personal care.
"I believe some had to hire maybe privately. You don't want people who go to 5 houses coming to your house if you have an immune disorder so it hasn't been easy for those people," Pitre said.
On Oct. 30, people with disabilities will receive a onetime payment of up to $600 from the federal government to help with the extra expenses. It was first announced back in June.
Accessible Canada tweeted out this announcement about the payment for people with disabilities. (Accessible Canada/Twitter)
The money is available to people who have an existing valid Disability Tax Credit certificate, those receiving Canada Pension Disability or Quebec Disability Pension benefits or those receiving disability support from Veterans Affairs Canada.
According to the federal government, some seniors may be eligible and parents of children with disabilities will receive a one-time payment. In total about 1.6 million people are eligible.
Pitre said that will help, but she'd like to see more money made available.
Randy Dickinson said it's regrettable it's taken this long for disabled people to receive what he calls "a rather modest one time payment".
Dickinson is the chairperson of the Premier's Council on Disabilities.
"It's frustrating that some of the most vulnerable and most needy Canadians are the last in line and also waiting months to get their support when other emergency payments were released within a matter of weeks after the pandemic started," Dickinson said.
Dickinson said the pandemic has created a number of financial difficulties for people with disabilities.
Randy Dickinson chairs the Premier's Council on Disabilities and says while he's glad the federal government has recognized the need for financial help during the pandemic, it should have been sent out sooner. (Submitted/Randy Dickinson)
"Maybe they've been struggling to pay the rent or pay bills for their hydro or what have you because of the ongoing difficulties of living with a low income, exacerbated by extra expenses that the pandemic has generated for the people who are least able to afford it," he said.
Dickinson said he's glad the federal government recognized the need for financial help, but he wishes the money had been sent out earlier.
He said the government should have considered more than one payment for people with disabilities, over a period of time, especially if the pandemic persists.
Murielle Pitre says people will have to decide how to spend the federal money, whether it's paying existing bills or stocking up on supplies in case COVID-19 cases start to rise again in this region.
"For me, I'm thinking of buying a small freezer so I can have more food available if I can't go out for a while," Pitre said.
il give you one.......im a diabetic...stroke victim.....heart attack victim and plenty more illnesses...when prescriptions dropped to 30 days at a time and ilive 40 kms from drugstore this had triple my trips to get medicine.....do you think my expenses went up??
Large swaths of the population have not and likely will not receive any additional $ from the government nor do they necessarily need any.
CERB was supposed to replace up to a % of income people lost when their hours were cut or they lost their job. Leaving the amounts and qualifications aside, it delivered much needed support for those that it was intended to address.
On the other side of the equation, there are those that are on pensions, both public and private, disability pensions, and a myriad of pre existing government social safety nets.
For the most part these folks did not receive meaningful amounts of $ from the government.
Nor should they, both sides of the equation encountered increased costs of living across the board and a myriad of subtle changes that make things more difficult. That in and of itself does not warrant increased funding/subsidies for these groups.
My issue, maybe it is just me or the way I am reading the articles is that there has been a hue and cry across the land for groups saying they have been disenfranchised more than others, due to covid-19. In general folks that need assistance should get it, but it should be on the basis of all things being equal. So if a person that was working was either able bodied or disabled, the CERB would have been appropriate as a wage replacement. If either person had additional supports while they were working, they should still get those supports irrespective. But if they didn't have any additional supports and were reliant on their income from employment, that is where I have an issue. Hope that makes sense.
The paltry $300 I received as a senior was appreciated but disappointing and came nowhere near covering my extra expenses.
Bottom line: if you don't want the money for nothing, or feel insulted by money for nothing, send it back, or give it to a charity.
I'm not too proud to pick up even a nickle in a grocery store parking lot and you won't hear me complain about it.
"Stocks fell Tuesday after President Donald Trump said he opposed House Democrats’ $2.2 trillion virus relief proposal, effectively stamping out hopes that another round of fiscal stimulus to aid the virus-stricken economy would come before the election
“We made a very generous offer of $1.6 Trillion Dollars and, as usual, she is not negotiating in good faith,” Trump wrote in a Twitter post Tuesday afternoon. “I am rejecting their.. ... request, and looking to the future of our Country. I have instructed my representatives to stop negotiating until after the election when, immediately after I win, we will pass a major Stimulus Bill that focuses on hardworking Americans and Small Business.”
But a half century or more of Liberal socialism has turned them into needy dependent hand-out beggars that never seem to get enough.
be thankful you were not made a paraplegic.
There's only empathy for race and gender issies in Canada.
I can assure that every day I am grateful for all that I have, despite being blind.
Grocery shopping is one of those things thst has become more expensive since the pandemic. Blind people hire people to grocery shop for them. Normally, people make mistakes, but those mistaken things bought can be returned, however since the pandemic grocery stores do not take returns. Do the blind oerson is stuck with product they didn't want more sometimes can't even eat.
Just one example of the added impact and costs of COVID,
The honest answer is I am married, and have been for 49 years.
My wife does all the shopping now, in the age of Covid.
Prior to that, I would go along as well to help lifting heavy items.
Not everyone has a spouse.
I don't consider those thst May need an extra hand or help because they don't
T have a spouse, needy or looking for handouts,
Not everyone has a spouse,
Many people need to pay to get their groceries and other essential tasks done,
Try adding another twenty or thirty dollars a week to your grocery bill for the simple luxury of needing something to eat. Hardly needy,
Try writing thst hand written note without hands. Good luck with that..
It still doesn't change the fact that free money is free money, and complaining about getting free money is about as ignorant as it gets.
It isn't free money if it never shows up. Been six months.
Meanwhile work part time or run a business and the cash has been flowing in through programs to the workers or the owners for months.
Plus ya know, one should try having to pay somebody by the hour to get their groceries for them before they complain about what others may get,
It took 4 months for the old folks to get their $300, that's 4 months from first promise of cash to it actually showing up in one's bank account, don't you worry, it will come.
It's rather sickening,
I think you are seeing what you want to see.
The Democrats have been playing that game for four years now.
You are the one who said needy, dependent, handout.
Brian Robertson
2 hours ago
Canadians were once a strong and self reliant people.
But a half century or more of Liberal socialism has turned them into needy dependent hand-out beggars that never seem to get enough.
Misguidedz. Hardly. Hatred. Yes,
You are a truly confused person.
What has one statement got to do with the other?
It is not unreasonable for people to question where the government is spending $ but a complete explanation in articles that identify it is to make up for services that were lost or not accessible during covid-19 would have been much more effective.
Ow please.
Go back and read the posts on the election and issues of people with disabilities. How they should just suck it up and mail in a ballot.
It's an ongoing issue on these forums, they can't attack other protected groups, so they let it out against disabled because nobody is stopping them.
Considering the group of people msking the negative comments post all day long, it could be questioned who is the actual drain on society resources...
It's a semi anonymous message board. I'm not interested in discussion on such or trying to get honey from words. I'm expressing my view. I don't care who agrees or doesn't.
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