Moved goalposts

Really pissed off right now. Been trying to get some help with ludicrously high prescription costs since last year when we were faced with running out of rainy day money. Earlier this year we cancelled a move to one of the many other provinces that don't leave citizens to fend for themselves as we were led to believe we'd qualify here but then they told us we had too much money in the bank. It seemed sensible in the long run to wait it out and re-apply later and I'm now doing that.

Now it appears that they may still refuse us on the basis our 19 year old daughter's wage may be treated as being fully available towards our costs. This would mean we'd have to take at least 70% of her pay as 'housekeeping' just to break even. She'd be better off renting somewhere privately; she'd have more money left after her living expenses than she'd have staying in our home and that's just wrong.

I always knew the government of NB was outdated in this respect and took some account of this sort of thing but I never had the impression they would treat something like this as if it was our income. I thought they might say a particular percentage would be considered as available and that our drugs costs were so high that it wouldn't disqualify us. I'm trying to get clarification and hoping they are getting it wrong.

But I fear that moving away may be back on the agenda again.