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e-4519

Petition to the House of Commons

Whereas:
  • An expected 18 month delay to receiving the Canada Disability Benefit due to regulation process;
  • A risk to life due to insufficient supports on current disability programs federally and provincially;
  • Canadians living with disabilities, on provincial and federal disability benefits, are struggling immensely with benefits significantly below the poverty line, the cost of living crisis and the ever increasing amount of homelessness;
  • Over half of those who are unhoused have one or more disabilities. Benefits are often not nearly enough to cover rent, and persons with disabilities are not prioritized in many municipal or provincial RGI programs;
  • There have been instances of people turning to maid out of economic desperation, often which is exasperating any current medical conditions they have, forced to live in survival mode, making impossible choices, and asking for charity to scrap by;
  • There have been those in the community who have also been lost to suicide; and
  • People are desperately awaiting the CDB, but an additional year and a half without supports will have dire consequences.
We, the undersigned, members of the community of disabled Canadians, call upon the House of Commons to:
1. Consider the implementation of a temporary top up benefit, a Disability Emergency Response Benefit or DERB, to be immediately provided to help all those currently eligible for any disability benefit program, until the Canada Disability Benefit is being distributed; and
2. Consider DERB to fill the gaps and make a difference in the many lives desperately needing support now.

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