What good is a social safety net that doesn’t catch you?

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Applications for the Canada Disability Benefit opened in June and the federal government now faces a choice: allow the benefit to remain an ineffective thread in Canada’s fraying social safety net, or tighten that net’s weave by amending the benefit to ensure that it achieves its purpose of lifting disabled people out of poverty. The messaging from the federal government regarding the Canada Disability Benefit’s intended purpose has been inconsistent.

Putting women at risk The benefit’s structure also puts disabled women at risk. Eligibility is based on family income because the government assumes that individuals in relationships pool their assets. This assumption ignores the realities of intimate partner violence and economic abuse where one person may control all the financial resources.

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