Lunacy

The kids have gone to work and school. All's quiet. The blogs look active but the computer is slow as the weekly scan is running. Time for breakfast and the paper until the scan's done.

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In the local news today. Disabled guy on $600 a month income plus a disability supplement of $1000 paid annually. Monthly income goes up and he's now $1.76 higher than the 'cut-off' point and, naturally, he loses his grand. Looks like this is something peculiar to this province.

Reverse the situation. Imagine he's been on $601.76 a month and it drops to $600 and because of that loss of $21 a year they pay him an extra $1000.

Absolute stupidity. Where's the common sense?

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Done some more research. It doesn't seem to be a "cut-off" at all. It seems that disabled recipients of Social Assistance qualify for an extra $1000 a year and his income is now above SA levels. Obviously the supplement should be built into SA calculations so existing income can be topped up to the usual level plus the $1000.