Canada Disability Benefit Disappoints

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Disability Poverty

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Disability Without Poverty and Campaign 2000’s Disability Poverty Report Card graded the federal government an “I’ for “Incomplete” on its promises to Canadians with disabilities.

This year , that grade has been downgraded to an unequivocal “ F ” because the Canada Disability Benefit Act ( CDB ) falls woefully short of the expectations it raised and the needs it promised to address.

A federal budget allocation of $ 2,400 annually per recipient is insufficient to meet basic needs.

The government projects that the CDB will eventually lift only 25,000 people with disabilities out of poverty annually .

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