I live on a disability pension from the province, which gives me $906 a month to live on. Of this, $375 is earmarked for rent, hydro, phone, cable.
I would challenge anyone who is unable to work to survive on this with any kind of dignity. But the fact that we have to wait weeks between cheques is the greatest hardship of all. It was very nice of the Liberal government to allow people on disability to earn $800 a month before they deducted any funds - that is just great! But where does that leave the ones who can't work? It leaves them hungry, without medical necessities, and just struggling to pay the rent and keep a roof over their heads.
Maybe if the government had compassion for those who are disabled, it would have raised the amount on our cheque, not just tell us we can keep more from a job we do not have.
Dianne Ewing-Smith
Victoria
