e-4660 (Social affairs and equality)

Petition to the House of Commons

• Economic Abuse is a common yet overlooked form of domestic abuse, affecting more than 95% of women experiencing intimate partner violence;
• Economic Abuse severely undermines an individual’s financial autonomy, agency, and well-being;
• Economic Abuse disproportionately affects women, racialized, gender-diverse, and other vulnerable groups, but it can happen to any individual and context;
• Economic Abuse survivors grapple with intergenerational trauma and other long-term consequences that have profound impacts on their quality of life, financial stability, housing security, or career opportunities;
• Economic Abuse remains widely under-recognized and underreported, urging for national-level efforts and awareness to address the crisis; and
• Allocation of funding and the collection of disaggregated data are needed to address and respond to Economic Abuse.