'It's peanuts. It's not going to keep up with the cost of living,' NDP social services critic Meara Conway said. skpoli
While funding for the SIS and SAID programs has been increased by $26 million for the coming fiscal year, Conway said the small increases to each individual’s payments represent “a failure of imagination”“It’s a failure to appreciate that programs like this
“It’s going to mean costs elsewhere, whether it’s justice, whether it’s addiction or mental health, whether it’s education. The failures will be felt across the board in really deep ways.”Article content “On the inflationary side … we pay for actual for several of the payments that we make on behalf of clients,” he said. “And that is a buffer built into the program, for increased rates that you might see, for example, on your utility bill.”
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