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In poverty
Recommendation 57:
There must be priority to keeping income levels consistent to avoid an influx of youth experiencing homelessness. Provide youth with resources and adequate preparation time to transition off government support to employment.
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Recommendation 170:
There is an urgent requirement for comprehensive and informed Gender/Diversity Analysis as well as an equality analysis of [restorative justice issues]. This particular implications of these initiatives for ethnic/cultural communities and gay/lesbians/bisexuals should be identified and reviewed for the express purpose of ensuring these initiatives do not compromise the safety of members of these communities and in fact serve these communities well. As well, the implications of these initiatives for poor people, elderly people, and for people with disabilities have yet to be considered. (p.47)
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Recommendation 20:
The provincial government should work with local governments and transit authorities to develop a plan that will provide free public transit for minors (ages 0-18) and free or reduced-fee transit access for low income families.
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Recommendation 19:
The provincial government should tie rent control to the unit to remove the incentive for evictions of current tenants to raise the rent for new tenants.
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Recommendation 4:
The provincial government should significantly raise income and disability assistance rates to bring total welfare incomes up to the CFLIM after-tax poverty thresholds and index them to inflation.
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Recommendation 3:
The provincial government should significantly raise income and disability assistance rates to bring them in line with actual living expenses and index them to inflation.
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Recommendation 5:
The provincial government should significantly raise income and disability assistance rates to bring them in line with actual living expenses and index them to inflation.
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Recommendation 12:
The provincial government should review and enhance supports to grandparents raising grandchildren and other kinship care providers. The federal government should allow grandparents on CPP Disability who are raising their grandchildren to continue to receive the CPP children’s benefit after they turn 65 and remove administrative barriers to receiving the Canada Child Benefit for kinship care providers.
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Recommendation 16:
The provincial government should review and enhance supports to grandparents raising grandchildren and other kinship care providers. The federal government should allow grandparents on CPP Disability who are raising their grandchildren to continue to receive the CPP children’s benefit after they turn 65 and remove administrative barriers to receiving the Canada Child Benefit for kinship care providers.
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Recommendation 4:
The provincial government should redesign the BC Early Childhood Tax Benefit into a BC Child Benefit covering children under 18, double the maximum benefit to $1,320 per child per year and index it annually to the cost of living.
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