Why is the Higgs government suddenly interested in poverty?
Bruce Fitch, Minister of Social Development, recently announced significant changes for social assistance recipients in New Brunswick. The Minister estimates ...
Tag: social assistance
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 housing crisis for people with disabilities: Kaitlyn’s disability awareness series, part 2
Imagine this. You have moved out of your parent’s home, finally free to live your life to the fullest. This ...
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. ...
New Brunswick’s social assistance reforms must include better support for home care workers
As New Brunswick's Department of Social Development continues to look at the social assistance reform, I wanted to discuss the ...
No immediate wage clawback reform; working poor left in lurch
The Common Front for Social Justice is criticizing the slow pace of the Higgs government’s approach to the province’s social ...
Time for New Brunswick to end policies that impoverish people with disabilities
It has been over a year since the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) was introduced to support many Canadians across ...
Common Front visits MLAs to demand action on the wage clawback affecting social assistance recipients
On May 3, members of the Common Front for Social Justice delivered letters to half of New Brunswick's Members of ...
Growing support to end New Brunswick’s punitive wage clawback for social assistance recipients
Support is growing for changes to a provincial policy that penalizes people who try to get off social assistance by ...
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