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In poverty
Recommendation 26:
Reviewing the processes that are currently in place for reporting “welfare fraud” to provide greater accountability and ensure that people receiving income assistance are not denied survival income without due process.
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Recommendation 12:
Review and enhance supports to grandparents raising grandchildren and other kinship care providers, including Child in the Home of a Relative care providers. 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.
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 40:
Return Housing First as the key strategy of the National Homelessness Strategy and implement the Indigenous Definition of Homelessness
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Recommendation 64:
Restructure the Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction, including:
- Bringing back individual caseworkers and timely individualized assistance.
- Ensuring there are computers and Ministry support staff at every Ministry office for the purpose of helping applicants.
- Modifying the online application for income assistance so that it is not mandatory to create an email address and BCelD.
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Recommendation 6:
Restore minimum unit size to 320 sq. ft. so people have a home that feels permanent.
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Recommendation 23:
Reform the Residential Tenancy Act to provide effective rent control by the rental unit rather than the tenant. This will stop giving landlords an incentive to evict low income people and end renovictions. The Province should also implement a rent freeze and end the annual allowable rent increase (2.5% in 2019).
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Recommendation 2:
Recovery plans demonstrate a clear commitment to honouring the histories, acknowledging the current inequities and meeting the particular requirements of Indigenous women and girls and of their communities, and to incorporating recommendations from the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls enquiry and the calls for action from organizations and movements like Black Lives Matter and Idle No More.
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Recommendation 36:
Recognize the right to housing at the provincial government level and declare BC a “rights-based” province.
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Recommendation 18:
Recognize the right to housing at the local government level and making it a “rights-based city” like the City of Montreal.
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Recommendation 29:
Recognize the cyclical relationship between poverty and addictions and take measures to ensure that they are addressed simultaneously.
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