You are currently browsing the daily archive for February 12, 2009.
On April 1, 2002 the BC Liberal Government implemented legislation that only allows people to be on welfare for two out of every five years. This means that starting this April 1, 2004 single people who have received welfare benefits for the past two years will no longer be able to receive welfare for the following three years. This will happen irregardless of the person having a job or any other income to live on. Single parents will lose $100 off their cheque each month for the following three years and two parent families will lose $200 off of their cheque. This means that single parents with one child will only have $225.58 to live on for the entire month!
The privileged would see this has a tax cut and would love this, they don’t care about welfare cuts, because they are not on welfare. Most of the time its the privileged who put in the tax cuts and make more money off of this happening.
The Underprivileged would be out raged about this, this is NOT enough to live on, if people had to live on $225.58 a month is just unacceptable i would be outraged, if i was on welfare and then they said i can only collect it 2 years out of 5, this would make my family starve and not be able to live for those 3 years. I think this is an outrage and shouldn’t be able to happen some people need help because they cant work or have an addiction and just cant work.
