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brettjet38 · ‎07-25-2022

Finally, common sense is moving through the system, this is a vast improvement over the current and nonfunctioning "Mean(s)-Tested" outdated 20th C System.

I have been a vocal supporter of Basic Incomes for years, this is the first actual step in the right direction, it's logical and fair. I suspect they will eventually roll other programs into this system over the next few years, by 2025.

The Basic Income Program is intended for individuals with long-term severely limited capacity for employment. It will come into effect on January 1, 2023.

If you are eligible for the Basic Income Program, you will be able to have a higher basic income. You can work to earn more money without affecting your benefit amount. You can also have more property and more money without reducing your benefit.

https://www.quebec.ca/en/family-and-support-for-individuals/social-assistance-social-solidarity/basi...

SO to all my fellow disabled Quebecers get your "paperwork" in order.

reallynicestamps · ‎07-25-2022

When my friend's mum was widowed in the 1960s , she and her six children were forced to sell the house she owned before she could be considered for "Mother's Allowance" putting the family out of stable, affordable housing and into the rental market.

A Universal Basic Income is one way to prevent such stupid policies. (That policy is no longer in place I believe).

Like the Baby Bonus or Old Age Pensions, give it to everybody and tax it back from those who don't need it, is a simpler , cheaper way to balance incomes.

brettjet38 · ‎07-25-2022

Did you know the first Basic Income "Minincome" was here in Canada in the early 70s, Dauphine Manitoba. It was arranged between the Liberals and the NDP & when the Conservatives came into power they axed it and hid ll the data until it was discovered in the basement of a university. A book has been written which examined all the data and it is a good read.

UBI is the simplest and least costly way to administer things and imagine the healthcare savings this will create. It is a win, win.

lotzofuniquegoodies · ‎07-25-2022

@brettjet38 wrote:
Finally, common sense is moving through the system, this is a vast improvement over the current and nonfunctioning "Mean(s)-Tested" outdated 20th C System.

I have been a vocal supporter of Basic Incomes for years, this is the first actual step in the right direction, it's logical and fair. I suspect they will eventually roll other programs into this system over the next few years, by 2025.

The Basic Income Program is intended for individuals with long-term severely limited capacity for employment. It will come into effect on January 1, 2023.

If you are eligible for the Basic Income Program, you will be able to have a higher basic income. You can work to earn more money without affecting your benefit amount. You can also have more property and more money without reducing your benefit.

https://www.quebec.ca/en/family-and-support-for-individuals/social-assistance-social-solidarity/basi...

SO to all my fellow disabled Quebecers get your "paperwork" in order.

Contemplating something rational like that happening in Alberta? Maybe when Trudeau gets voted premier of the province.... so not likely in my lifetime? Apologies for being sooo political on a Monday.

-Lotz