[news] OCAP demands extra $250 for every person on social assistance

[Resist!ca]

"The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) and Ontario Common Front organizations across the province have kicked off a campaign to win back what Mike Harris took from people on Welfare and Disability Support Programs nearly a decade ago - we have found a way to start putting money back on peoples' cheques. OCAP and Ontario Common Front groups are demanding that a little known social assistance fund, the Special Diet Supplement, be released to everyone on welfare and disability. Currently, the fund is only available through medical practitioners. With the shortage of Doctors in Ontario, and even greater shortage of progressive ones, the Special Diet fund is extremely inaccessible."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/4/8/61041/05003