Disability advocates push for a Happy New Year in New Brunswick
The Select Committee for Accessibility in New Brunswick will be meeting soon to discuss the development of an Accessible NB Act. ...
Tag: Household Income Policy
Five things the New Brunswick government can do to improve the quality of life of persons with disabilities
People with disabilities in New Brunswick have been living in deep poverty as New Brunswick has one of the lowest ...
Abandon the outdated Household Income Policy: Open Letter to New Brunswick’s Minister of Social Development Bruce Fitch
On behalf of five organizations that represent people living with disabilities, people experiencing poverty, and tenants in the province of ...
New Brunswick needs to stop treating people living together as economic units to justify denial of income assistance
It was August 2018. I met my partner and wanted to move in with them but New Brunswick's Household Income ...
New Brunswick’s Household Income Policy is unjust for people with disabilities
I am a proud disability advocate in New Brunswick. With the Department of Social Development conducting a review of its ...
New Brunswick’s Household Income Policy forcing persons with a disability to live alone
The Household Income Policy needs to be changed for persons with a disability. We should not have to live alone, ...
Axe the Household Income Policy, say disability rights advocates and allies
Today, disability rights advocates and allies are launching a letter writing campaign website, axethehip.ca, to abolish the Household Income Policy. ...
Stories of living with a disability under New Brunswick’s Household Income Policy
The Household Income Policy in New Brunswick does not work to meet many people’s needs who live with a mobility ...
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