Kenney forces disabled people to bypass the CSS process.
They are under so much pressure due to ever shrinking benefits and increases in prices, all expenses, they always have an empty bank account.
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The constant stress and fear, fear of eviction, fear of hunger, fear of their negative bank balance, or growing credit card debt. Or even worse than credit card debt, cash money type debt, the modern day loan sharks.
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Fear makes people irrational. Fear hurts. Fear can cause a form of PTSD.
People begin to hide gifts from family and friends. They learn how to barter and beg and plead to get what they NEED. Because CSS claws it all away, or 99.9% of it.
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The rates are so low it's impossible to live within the guidelines of the outdated, "workhouse" mentality. #RAISETHERATESAB
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I won't go into all the ways that people bypass their case worker or reporting. I'm sure you'll figure it out if you ever become disabled in Kenney's Heartless Alberta, where even the Heartland is suffering.
We live in so-called subsidized housing in the suburbs. The rent is a bit higher than some but the unit includes, water, heat, and a 40% discount on Internet and TV. It has an elevator, security, and is a certified crime free building. It has a washer and dryer in the bathroom.
It has a 6x12 balcony, nice but over looking a busy 4 lane highway, and noisier than a race track. It modern windows and doors that seal up so well, we can't hear the traffic with them closed.
The water pressure is great, and the water clean. The heat is included and efficient.
The heat is so great that winter time we rarely turn it on, heat just rises. The windows have modern blinds that are included. It is a smoke free building, though people puff away on their balconies. Same with the demon weed. It has two bedrooms. My partner is also disabled.
Disabled in Alberta: Suffering During the Heat/Smoke (thread).
In Edmonton the #AQHI climbed steadily to a 10+ today. 10+ is dangerous, it is literally off the scale. It is dangerous to everyone but especially so to disabled people.
I live in an apartment on the 3rd floor. The building has no A/C, no fans, and is smaller than 3 matchboxes. Okay, 6.
Air quality isn't great even on normal days.
By now someone is asking what's a matchbox. Ben Harper is asking why my dad doesn't move me to nicer place.
The temperature in the apartment can rise to 40 degrees, 50 on the balcony in direct sun. It faces west so summer time it gets the sun until 10PM. The only way to survive is open all the windows and sit in front of a fan bought by relatives.