Bill to create Canada Disability Benefit reintroduced with few details
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OTTAWA — The federal authorities has reintroduced laws to create a month-to-month profit cheque for working-age Canadians with disabilities however Ottawa nonetheless can’t say who will qualify, how a lot they’d get or when the cheques will begin flowing.
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The Canada Incapacity Profit is to be modelled after the Assured Revenue Complement, fulfilling a promise first made by the Liberals in September 2020.
The unique invoice launched virtually a 12 months in the past died with out passing when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau referred to as an election final summer time.
The brand new model tabled at this time by Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough is equivalent to the unique and leaves virtually each element on how the profit will work to rules that haven’t but been finalized.
Qualtrough says there are already federal helps for kids and seniors with disabilities however there’s nothing for individuals with disabilities between 19 and 64 years previous.
She says the “harsh actuality” is that one in 4 Canadians with disabilities lives beneath the poverty line and this profit shall be designed to alter that.
