{"id":5388,"date":"2024-04-17T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5388"},"modified":"2024-05-17T14:02:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T18:02:34","slug":"heart-breaks-advocates-say-new-disability-benefit-still-leaves-people-in-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/heart-breaks-advocates-say-new-disability-benefit-still-leaves-people-in-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Heart breaks\u2019: Advocates say new disability benefit still leaves people in poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advocates say a disability benefit that was supposed to be a historic move to lift people out of poverty turned out to be a disappointment in the federal budget.<\/p>\n<p>The new Canada Disability Benefit will provide a maximum of $2,400 a year\u2014or $200 a month \u2014 for low-income people with disabilities. <\/p>\n<p>The benefit is expected to be given to about 600,000 people and won\u2019t kick in until July 2025. <\/p>\n<p>Rabia Khedr, national director of Disability Without Poverty, says the benefit falls far short of what it intended to do when it was legislated in June 2023. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advocates say a disability benefit that was supposed to be a historic move to lift people out of poverty turned out to be a disappointment in the federal budget.<\/p>\n<p>The new Canada Disability Benefit will provide a maximum of $2,400 a year\u2014or $200 a month \u2014 for low-income people with disabilities. <\/p>\n<p>The benefit is expected to be given to about 600,000 people and won\u2019t kick in until July 2025. <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/heart-breaks-advocates-say-new-disability-benefit-still-leaves-people-in-poverty\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Heart breaks\u2019: Advocates say new disability benefit still leaves people in poverty<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,1063,557,1064,1065,259],"class_list":["post-5388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-canada-disability-benefit","tag-disabilities","tag-disability-without-poverty","tag-disabled-people","tag-human-rights","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5390,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388\/revisions\/5390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}