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Letter in support of ISAC submission to pre-budget consultations

December 14, 2016

Letter to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs supports recommendations in the submission of the Income Security Advocacy Centre calling for increased investment in social assistance and a number of changes in the rules ……

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Brief to the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) 2013/2014 Legislative Review

April 29, 2014

The purpose of the AODA is to is to remove existing barriers, and prevent the introduction of new ones. For injured workers, however, even with both the Ontario Human Rights Code and AODA in place, new barriers are being introduced by the…

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Deputation to People’ Budget process

March 20, 2013

Presentation on 2013 budget calls for full COLA (as in the 2007 budget) and addresses policies that cut costs on the backs of injured workers, downloading compensation onto social assistance, the municipality and property tax system – precisely what Meredith’s system was…

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Presentation to the People’s Budget conversations

March 7, 2013

How costs are being offloaded from a system funded through employer payroll costs to the individual and the public purse; cost shifting must stop as must the move to a more private, corporate model.…

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Re: Social Assistance Review

August 9, 2011

Submission supports the campaign to end the clawback of the Ontario Child Benefit, and calls for monitoring to ensure injured workers are not being inappropriately transferred from the workers’ compensation system to social assistance.…

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Submission on Bill 152, Poverty Reduction Act

April 21, 2009

Submission to the Standing Committee on Social Policy details how the workers’ compensation system relegates a substantial number of injured workers to poverty and welfare programs. IWC proposes how, with a few additions, the Bill could eradicate poverty among injured workers and…

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