tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23948057.post1578847743131216954..comments2007-03-27T18:23:46.904-04:00Ben Burdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06372169478978720740ben@eagle.caBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23948057.post-41146588362723678932007-03-27T18:23:00.000-04:002007-03-27T18:23:00.000-04:00What we need is some some straight talk about the lie these guys keep telling - The clawback has been eliminated" as you point out it has not. We must prove it and keep pounding the message home.Ben Burdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06372169478978720740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23948057.post-17102773441461454542007-03-27T15:37:00.000-04:002007-03-27T15:37:00.000-04:00You could be right about the ultimate effect of the provincial budget, but I want you and your readers to know that the poor didn't get as much as you might think.<BR/><BR/>Although the media is claiming that the new Ontario Child benefit ends the infamous claw back of the National Child Benefit from people on welfare, that is far from true.<BR/><BR/>This year they'll get a one time payment of $250 per child in July, then nothing more til next July, when only about $50 of the $122 per child currently clawed back will be replaced.<BR/><BR/>And get this, at the same time they start paying monthly, in July 2008, they start REDUCING the welfare rates! How's that for a shell game?<BR/><BR/>Finally, if people don't have kids, they don't matter. Singles on Ontario Works will go from $548 to $559, starting in November this year. That's for a month folks, not per week.<BR/><BR/>For singles on ODSP, their rates increase from a maximum of $979 all the way up to $999, again not til November.<BR/><BR/>So don't be in too big a hurry to assume that the poor were winners in that budget. If they were, I'd hate to see what the losers got!<BR/><BR/>Your friendly anti poverty activist<BR/>DJOAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com