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Income insecurity and benefits
Recommendation 6:
Eliminate the daily rate for publicly funded home support services.
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Recommendation 4:
Eliminate minimum wage exemptions that disproportionately effect women and contribute to other forms of exploitation, harassment and violence.
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Recommendation 63:
Eliminate barriers to accessing income and disability assistance by reducing unnecessary eligibility criteria and simplifying the application processes. This includes:
- Removing the two-year financial independence requirement for income assistance.
- Basing income assistance eligibility on current income only.
- Removing the penalty clawback for failure to work search requirements for income assistance.
- Removing the work search requirement for mothers with children over the age of three years old.
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Recommendation 54:
Education should be subsidized and the province should provide opportunities for project-based learning and apprenticeships. Youth recommend having basic education courses online to support literacy and numeracy development.
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Recommendation 7:
Do not provide incentives to profit or non-profit SRO owners to upgrade their units unless rents in upgraded units are guaranteed to not exceed the welfare/pension rate.
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Recommendation 66:
Develop fun workshops that connect youth to employers and gets employers feeling a sense of responsibility and achievement from employing youth.
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Recommendation 5:
Develop a program to assist low- and modest-income seniors with major home repairs.
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Recommendation 5:
Create more scattered site program units for youth with rental subsidies and funding support positions in organizations who can partner with property management companies and provide case management. Additionally, organizations should network with other agencies that have access to housing to ensure youth are prioritized.
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Recommendation 15:
Continue to prioritize new early learning and child care investments in 2023 budget and beyond to establish universal access to a system of high-quality, inclusive child care for BC children and families that has no parent fee for low-income families. Create enough licensed child care spaces for all who choose them. Ensure early childhood educators are paid compensation that reflects their education and the importance of the work they do by implementing a province-wide, publicly funded competitive wage grid for positions within the child care sector. Ensure there are adequate resources and support for the implementation of the Indigenous Early Learning and Child Care Framework.
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 72:
Continue the $300 increase to income and disability assistance rates and further raise the rates to the Market Basket Measure.
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