Journalist source request: Working on a story today about the #CanadaDisabilityBenefit. Would love to talk to #PWD in Canada or family members about what they wanted and what they got. (Bonus if you have stories about problems with the Disability Tax Credit.) My DMs are open. Email on the site linked in the bio.
Hello everyone! Thank you all for reaching out and sharing your reactions and thoughts. I greatly appreciate it. Thanks for also telling me the issues with DMs.
@meagangillmore The new CDB will be unhelpful to lots of people with disabilities. For example, the CDB changes nothing ($0) for provincial ODSP recipients in Ontario who also don’t qualify for the federal DTC. For those that do qualify, the meager CDB barely changes anything.
@meagangillmore It's a slap in the face and even if you do qualify, there is no guarantee that the province (if you're on provincial benefits) won't claw it back.
@meagangillmore @greensnail_ Its a dang joke/slap in the face. This is what our community has spent the last 4 years bagging for a $200/mt waste of damn time they never listen to one thing disabled canadians told them. Its goal was to lift pwd's out of poverty $200/mt ain't going to do jack. Dm if u like.
@meagangillmore Tried to DM you but can’t… my issue with DTC - besides it not including all that need the help #CDB was to help - is the process forms. If you have a Dr. they don’t have time & have to resubmit every 5 years for disability that is permanent - govt def want people to give up.
@meagangillmore Please mention how the dragging of the CDB is also a systematic violation of the #CRPD Article 18: Adequate standard of living. 👇
@meagangillmore Please call it for what it is: #SocialMurder #Eugenics The tools to die, but not the tools to live. #LegislatedPoverty
@meagangillmore To be clear... it's not about what people with disabilities want... it's about what we NEED to survive. The bulk of this #Unfair #Budget2024 and 8 budgets before went to wants before needs... if we're going to be accurate. Money goes to people who don't need it, comparatively.
@meagangillmore I also can not message. I have experience with the DTC. Went through the appeals process after initial denial and I'm in the middle of reapplying. Have all kinds of thoughts on the Canada Disability Benefit.