Ron Good was a baker within the Okanagan for a few years earlier than medical doctors found a tumor that was situated six centimeters into his mind close to his mind stem in 2018.
It was doable for the medical doctors to take away many of the malignant tumor, however a small a part of the mind tumor remained.
“It was a really massive tumor, and on my medical experiences they wrote, ‘non-survivable,’” Good mentioned.
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However Good survived the surgical procedure and now he and his spouse reside in a quiet Penticton, BC, neighborhood
He’s unable to work, although, as a result of intense surgical procedure. He has been residing off each federal and provincial incapacity funding which totals slightly below $23,000 a yr.
The issue is that the provincial funding is capped and his spouse can solely make a sure amount of cash a yr.
“As soon as your partner hits $15,500 you are minimize off,” Good mentioned/
“The way in which that the federal government defined it’s that it is primarily based in your partner’s revenue. As a result of we did every little thing by the ebook, by the principles, we obtained the impression we have been being punished for being married on incapacity.”
Good’s spouse makes lower than $24,000 a yr, working part-time at a neighborhood fuel station.
He tells International Information that she must ship in her pa stubs every month as soon as they hit that cap quantity of $15,000. His provincial funds from him are suspended till he’s reassessed once more early the next yr.
“So it really works out to 6 to seven months of protection a yr after which that is it,” Good mentioned. “So it really works out to 6 to seven months of protection a yr after which that is it.”
International Information reached out to the Minister of Social Improvement and Poverty Discount. In a press release, Minister Sheila Malcolmson mentioned that, “Many individuals are going through actual challenges world wide with world inflation.”
She additionally mentions that the BC authorities has raised revenue help and incapacity help charges 4 instances.
“We have additionally elevated incomes exemptions for these on Incapacity Help, from $9,600 a yr in 2017 to $15,000 a yr in 2021, so that somebody could make as much as $15,000 along with what they obtain in incapacity help,” mentioned Malcolmson.
Good says he is tried to achieve out to a number of folks within the provincial authorities, together with former premier John Horgan when he was in workplace.
He says he both will get no solutions or is ignored. He mentioned he want to see some adjustments made to this technique in order that fewer folks undergo who’re simply making an attempt to outlive.
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