AISH-to-ADAP change leaving some Albertans with less income: ‘Really struggling’

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://globalnews.ca/news/11887891/aish-to-adap-alberta-disabled-couples/

So my GP asked me many questions about the ADAP and AISH stuff, and I talked about it with my therapist too, and I have been considering staying on ADAP instead of applying for full AISH.

And I just discovered another reason to do so.

Under the current/old AISH program, income exemption is a little over $1,000 and when you go over they take away some of your benefit income but it's not, like, equal to how much you go over.

Under the new AISH program income exemption for full AISH will be $350 and the benefits calculator I just looked through is saying all the income I might earn over that exemption amount would then be clawed back. So I could only ever earn $350 more than I get from AISH, on AISH.

I put in $850 for ADAP whose exemption is $700 and as it stands for now at least the calculator only took back $4.15.

Now I just have to hope they recognize I already have a job and that I'm a contract worker.

#Alberta #AISH #ADAP

Soooooooooooo … after receiving "the letter" from #AISH this week, I'm curious:

Anyone out there know if ANY #ActuallyDisabled Albertans are still actually disabled according to the #UCP ?

… Because any actual file review should NOT have determined I would somehow magically be fit for routine employment. (Lots of knowledge/education/skills sure, but close to ZERO predictability day-to-day re capacity beyond basic activities of remaining alive 🙄).

#ADAP does not look useful to me whatsoever, just even less funding than the woefully-inadequate AISH.

… but I suppose it's "nice" to know exactly how much the #abgov "values" its #disabled citizens? 🙄😐😡

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