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Income insecurity and benefits


Climate justice

Recommendation 4: Provide resources and subsidies to low-income households to improve energy efficiency, install electric heat pumps, household-level solar and other renewable energy sources.


Equity

Recommendation 15: Guarantee access to income and disability assistance for all regardless of immigration and citizenship status.


Equity

Recommendation 16: Amend the Commencement of Enrolment Policy (MOC 15-074) to remove the wait period for all new and returning BC residents coming from outside of Canada and ensure access to health care upon arrival.


Equity

Recommendation 21: The BC Human Rights Commission to prioritize stigma-auditing areas of law and policy that most directly impact highly stigmatized populations including sex workers in areas such as:

  • Public space governance,
  • Income assistance and disability policy,
  • Housing policy and residential tenancy law,
  • Child welfare law and policy,
  • Policing law and policy,
  • Health policy related to mental health and substance use,
  • Privacy law as it relates to people who live in public spaces and people who are criminalized as a result of poverty and substance use.



Universal basic services

Higher education

Recommendation 40: Reduce tuition fees by 50% and increase the availability of non-repayable post-secondary bursaries and grants for low-income students.


Universal basic services

Democracy and legal services

Recommendation 59: Fully restore and fund poverty law legal aid in BC to address areas such as income security, employment, housing, and debt.


Economic security

Extreme poverty and homelessness

Recommendation 72: Continue the $300 increase to income and disability assistance rates and further raise the rates to the Market Basket Measure.


Economic security

Extreme poverty and homelessness

Recommendation 73: Increase the earnings exemptions for those on income and disability assistance and end the claw back of unearned income.


Economic security

Extreme poverty and homelessness

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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