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.
5 comments
Comments feed for this article
February 18, 2009 at 12:07 am
mgoodwin13
i think its terrible that a single parent is forced to live on 225 dollars a month. i know myself i couldn’t do it. that’s barely enough for food and toiletries alone. and there is no way that’s paying the rent for the month. i think its terrible that people are having to live through this.
its a very hard time in the business world to get jobs as well because of the recession and such.
February 18, 2009 at 7:05 am
abitze
This is an old article from 2001 but i dont think that welfare is up very much at all. and it is horrible the people have to live off that for a month
February 19, 2009 at 6:29 pm
mgoodwin13
i dont think it is up very much. not to a liveable level anyways.
February 25, 2009 at 6:16 am
fgarnier
When i was on welfare it was me, my brother and my mom who was single. I don’t remember when this was, maybe around 2004-ish, it wasn’t as bad as what happened like that, but the cheques my mom got kept getting smaller and it was getting more stressful and tight with money. We’re off it now, but the whole thing thing was to get people to start working instead of sitting around doing nothing, literally living off welfare. Still that’s absolutely ridiculous to live off such little money. I think it’s gotten worse now too, but im not 100% on it.
March 4, 2009 at 5:26 am
mcarlyle
Welfare is a necessity in all societies, especially in the western cultures where the divide between the rich and poor is increasing all the time. We all see people who abuse the system, but as many of us know, it is important for some people to get on their feet and live. Where would some of us be without it? I never heard about this law, but it is rediculous in my opinion. forward me the article if you can.