Liberals promise income assistance improvements
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Manitoba Liberals pledged on Thursday to overhaul employment income assistance and introduce a minimum guaranteed income for seniors.
Leader Dougald Lamont said the current EIA system puts recipients further behind by lowering benefits for people who work or volunteer.
“Manitoba’s Employment Income Assistance system has barely changed in more than 35 years,” Lamont said in a news release. “Instead of being designed to lift people out of poverty and be more self-sufficient, Manitoba’s EIA program has been designed to punish people in poverty.”
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Liberal Leader Dougald Lamont said the party would remove barriers for people who receive EIA and work or volunteer.
The St. Boniface candidate said Manitoba Liberals would remove barriers for people who receive EIA and work or volunteer, and would boost the monthly amount a person can receive when volunteering from $100 to $500.
The party would also create a voluntary jobs program to provide wage and job subsidies for not-for-profit organizations. The commitments were made at the Fort Rouge Leisure Centre in South Osborne.
Lamont also repeated a past pledge to provide seniors 60-plus and people with severe mental or physical disabilities a “guaranteed dignified income.”
The provincial election is Oct. 3.
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