Mother-in-law can't get onto disability
In 2015 my mother-in-law, due to her inability to work because of disabilities both mental and physical, was forced into several bad situations regarding her living situation. She became a roommate twice, both of whom turned out to be abusive and heavy drug users.
Her health was suffering both mentally and physically and it was at that time that my wife asked me to do something.
I bought her a mobile home in Lombardy trailer park and, with my wife, commenced work to make it up to code and habitable.
Four days away from my mother-in-law moving in, arsonists - who were caught on camera, yet to date have not been caught or charged - burnt that trailer to the ground, putting me about $5,000 out of pocket. My mother-in-law still needed somewhere to live though, so I dug deep, begged friends and family and even strangers via GoFundMe and bought her another trailer in the same park.
Her hardships haven't ended there however. She has spent the last two years embattled with the Ministry of Social Services who have routinely closed her file and screwed her around.
They have only paid her for four months in the last year, forcing the trailer park to take me to court on July 6 to repossess her mobile home. (Lombardy has been both patient and helpful throughout and is not to blame.).
The colossal incompetence regarding my mother-in-law's file defies description. They have caused her natural gas and hydro to be cut off multiple times, forcing her to move out and place a burden on relatives because she had no way to cook or clean, only to reconnect her and then cut her off again, incurring hundreds, to thousands of dollars in unnecessary connection fees, creating a financial burden on her relatives.
I have done my part in providing her with a domicile that is rent free, where all that welfare has to cover is the pad fee, which is only $330 a month, and yet here they are playing her like a yo-yo.
My mother-in-law's medical issues go back decades; she should have been on disability years ago and there is no good reason why she is not, because her ailments are well documented by health services here in B.C.
Bruce Fader
Prince George
