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Kendall Worth: Bus pass raises hopes of employment for couple on income assistance

August 28, 2018 1 Comment

Kendall Worth meets up with a couple on income assistance, all set to do a serious job search now that they have a free bus pass and a phone. Just goes to show what a difference access to public transportation makes. “Now that we have both the bus pass and the phone, we are planning to get down to business with looking for meaningful employment,” Peter and Peggy tell Kendall. “Kendall, we are tired of living with the bureaucratic nonsense. We are tired of it, and we hope that now that we got our free bus pass we can get off this system.”

Letter – Poverty activists to Community Services bureaucrats: Could we speak with your manager, please

August 23, 2018

The Benefits Reform Action Group sent a letter to the Community Services Standing Committee, explaining why it is no longer interested in meetings with bureaucrats that go nowhere.

Community Services trounced once again in Nova Scotia Court of Appeal

July 27, 2018 3 Comments

The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal has ruled that Community Services cannot refuse to pay a welfare recipient for suitable housing just because the rent exceeds the shelter allowance. We talk to Dalhousie Legal Aid lawyer lawyer Claire McNeil, who argued the case, and community legal aid worker Fiona Traynor, about the scope of this milestone decision.

Community Services saves millions on social assistance payments

July 27, 2018 2 Comments

Community Services spent $3.5 million less on social assistance payments than budgeted. Social assistance recipients continue to live well below the poverty line.

More lousy reporting on poverty, this time in the Chronicle Herald

July 16, 2018 1 Comment

The notion that as a reporter you should talk to all parties affected by a story is often held up as what distinguishes real journalists from bloggers and spreaders of fake news. Except, apparently, when the story is about social assistance.

Why talk when nobody listens? Benefit Reform Action Group halts discussions with Community Services

July 12, 2018 4 Comments

The annual review for people on social assistance is intrusive, stressful, and often unnecessary. But when BRAG complained to the Standing Committee it turned into a lengthy exchange of letters. Enough of that, says BRAG. Here is the story, as told by Kendall Worth.

Open letter to Minister Kelly Regan: We need a living allowance for people with disabilities

June 13, 2018 2 Comments

Kendall Worth, in his third open letter to Community Services minister Kelly Regan,makes a strong case for a disability allowance.

Poverty activist Kendall Worth on May Day: All we can do is continue to fight and hope things get better

May 12, 2018 1 Comment

Poverty activist Kendall Worth reminds people attending the Halifax May Day celebration that the desire for dignity and a half decent life is as real and as urgent for people on social assistance as it is for all working people.