Brenda Prince: 'I've taken out payday loans against my disability in order to pay last month's rent.'
A Kelowna woman fears she is headed for a homeless shelter due to clawbacks made by the provincial government to her disability benefits after a car crash.
Unable to work on her feet, she was forced onto medical employment insurance and ICBC provided a supplement to cover the rest of her $1,000 monthly income. Prince was previously well under that threshold and was happy to work the hours she could to pay rent—she notes a person cannot live on just $1,500 a month in Kelowna.
“It’s outrageous that the government is doing this to people on disability. I'm doing everything I can to stay afloat — this car accident, I was a passenger in a car accident where we were T-boned into my door… I was not driving. It was not my car.”
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