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In poverty
Recommendation 28:
Ensuring that people living with disabilities can access disability support by:
- simplifying the application process to reduce wait times and lessen reliance on advocates;
- providing provincial guidelines for doctors/service providers on how and when to fill out disability forms; and
- ensuring that hospital social workers are resourced and directed to work with patients in need to apply for disability benefits.
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Recommendation 5:
Ensure the Canada Child Benefit, in combination with other income measures, raises all families with children above the CFLIM after tax poverty lines calculated through tax filer data and ensure access to this and other federal benefits for families in population groups with higher rates of poverty.
2022 BC Child Poverty Report Card
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First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society
First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society
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2022
2022
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Recommendation 29:
Ensure that women and children fleeing violence have priority for decent social housing.
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Recommendation 24:
Ensure that residents of all non-profit social housing, including SRO rooms, supportive housing projects and emergency shelters, have full tenant rights under the Residential Tenancy Act.
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Recommendation 27:
Ensure that immigration status is not a barrier to social housing
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Recommendation 8:
Ensure maternity and parental leave benefits are universally available to all parents (regardless of work status), increase the duration of leave and ensure the benefit levels are not less than the CFLIM after-tax poverty lines.
2022 BC Child Poverty Report Card
Group/author:
First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society
First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society
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2022
2022
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Recommendation 20:
Ensure K–12 public education funding is sufficient to mitigate inequities between high- and low-income neighbourhoods, school districts and families and to ensure appropriate inclusion of students with diverse learning needs. This includes enhancing funding to school districts for special education assistants, arts programming, libraries, student support services, and deferred maintenance, among other areas that still require urgent attention in future provincial budgets. Schools need additional funds to implement public health response measures arising from the COVID–19 pandemic.
2022 BC Child Poverty Report Card
Group/author:
First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society
First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society
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2022
2022
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Recommendation 120:
Ensure families are able to maintain an adequate standard of living by raising income assistance and disability rates, ensuring safe and affordable housing, and guaranteeing food and transit allowances.
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Recommendation 7:
Enhance Employment Insurance to expand access, duration, and level of benefits to reduce inequity for lower-income workers and prevent and reduce child and family poverty, including establishing a minimum benefit floor.
2022 BC Child Poverty Report Card
Group/author:
First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society
First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society
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2022
2022
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Recommendation 5:
Engage in proactive education with municipalities to ensure that zoning and regulatory bylaws, and related public consultation processes, do not discriminate based on social condition.
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