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In poverty
Recommendation 31:
BETTER FUND LEGAL AID – Increase funding of legal aid, to make more people eligible and to expand the types of legal problems that are eligible.
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Recommendation 18:
Automatically enrol all young people transitioning out of care in an income support program that meets their basic living costs and ensures they have safe housing.
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Recommendation 68:
Apply an equity lens to all provincial, regional, and municipal transportation planning to ensure all forms of transportation infrastructure are affordable, accessible, and safe for at-risk and low-income community members.
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Recommendation 14:
Amend the B.C. Human Rights Code, RSBC 1996, c210 to prohibit discrimination and harassment based on social condition.
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Recommendation 1:
Although the number of seniors living in poverty is small, the poverty rate among seniors has increased over the last twenty years. Single senior women are particularly at risk. A Poverty Reduction Plan for BC, a 2008 report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), outlines a comprehensive set of recommendations that BC policy-makers can draw on.
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Recommendation 74:
Allow income assistance recipients to attend post-secondary institutions and retain full assistance benefits and expand the Single Parents Employment Initiative (SPEI) to include higher education.
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Recommendation 69:
Advocacy with the Federal government to ensure Indigenous organizations are able to access benefits as the current benefit through Indigenous Services Canada is only for people on reserve resulting in a gap. There needs to be advocacy so Indigenous youth are equally able to access relief funds and the same benefits provided to youth on reserve. In Burns Lake, the Friendship Centers are struggling to provide hampers, food, and to continue providing services to those most impacted by the pandemic.
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Recommendation 5:
Adjust income and disability assistance rates for families with a child with disabilities to recognize the additional costs associated with raising a child with extra support needs.
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Recommendation 5:
Adjust income and disability assistance rates for families with a child with disabilities to recognize the additional costs associated with raising a child with extra support needs.
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Recommendation 176:
Addressing Gaps in Services for Marginalized Women: In all decisions regarding funding for basic social services such as income assistance, affordable housing, and bridging, preemployment, and job retraining programs, consider their impact on the safety of particularly vulnerable women who are victims of violence, and their children. Women and children who cannot leave abusive situations because of issues of poverty, housing, or unemployment, are women and children who are seriously at risk. (p.3)
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