Liberal talk of provincial clawbacks a tactic to distract from ‘insultingly low’ disability benefit, say advocates
‘People with disabilities were led to believe this program would lift them out of poverty,’ says social policy expert John Stapleton, but none believed the Liberals would go ‘so low’ with the monthly benefit amount.
The Liberals’ post-budget messaging about preventing provinces from clawing back the coming Canada Disability Benefit is a distraction intended to help them weather the disability community’s outrage, say advocates and experts, following the fiscal blueprint’s “woefu...
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