Why - after all the gifts of funding and finances for those living with poverty - are people on disability again being forced to apply for pension funds when most are still in their 30s and 40s?
I know that the cavalier line from head office is that welfare is the last line of funding. OK, that is acceptable. However, not everyone is unintelligent. So if a person shows up to apply for help - the first question is are you able to work and the interview goes from there - why then are people being told again that they have to apply for their pensions when that question has already been established at some previous point.
People do not come to a ministry office unless all of their resources are depleted. Yes, I understand that there are exceptions to that thinking,
I understand that the new government is functioning under a massive handicap of old legislation and a severe lack of understanding concerning the hoops that clients are repeatedly forced to jump through, which can take a very long time and often the client will just give up and take their own life because there is seemingly no option for them or they can see no hope.
I have never understood why society has allowed government to re-enact Elizabethan Poor Laws or why we as a society sit back while those who work for us as society practice passive euthanasia (the withdrawal of goods and services that enable a population to live a productive life).
Since I know that there are many people who are facing this new hoop, I am suggesting that any reader is aware of this issue and is frustrated, please find an advocate and ask them to help you to write a letter to Victoria and help educate this new government.
Please remember, if no one says anything about a problem, then those in authority will often ignore the issue until we make the problem their problem.
Florence J. Schultz
Prince George
