too ill to work. This following email is what I recently sent to all MLA's as a proposal for RDSPs. "I am an advocate for persons with disabilities including myself and I wish to take this opportunity to speak with you about the Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP). I believe it is one of the most significant programs for people with disabilities and their families in the past 10 years. Even though I am not fully able to make use of it myself, I want to help others. I believe that, as good as it is, there can be significant improvements to this program at the provincial level. I recently spoke with a financial planner who is an expert on both disability issues and the RDSP and he has come up with a unique idea. He suggested to me that any money contributed by the beneficiary of an RDSP shall not count as income. Under current Person With Disability (PWD) benefit rules, a person with a disability is only allowed to earn $800 per month before his or her PWD benefits are clawed back. Allowing people to contribute to their RDSP, over and above the $800 limit and not lose any PWD benefits, would increase there motivation to work where possible. It would: Also increase people with disabilities’ motivation to seek out work that pays them more than • $800 per month. Break the cycle of poverty that many people with disabilities find themselves in today, • This could be done with no increase in provincial expense. • I would encourage you to explore this possibility further as a means to assist people with disabilities at no real cost to the provincial government." 2014-02-08 Disabilities Advocate I wish I say yes, but the ministry knows the exact numbers. The MSDSI website had a fantastic search engine, I used, but it has been changed yet again. All kinds of info was there to be found and now it is gone. What is wrong with sharing knowledge? Change it back please! The figures I used where from people who know the facts, that is all I can tell you. On a first hand basis I know many disabled people and very few are able to work, in an ongoing basis. Disabilities come in two large groups. Stable and Unstable Disabilities. I have unstable conditions, I do not know wheather I will be able to move, one hour from now. I can not enter the workforce, outside of my home, and I can not make deadlines, I am just too 2014-02-08 unstable.
too ill to work. 2014-02-08 This following email is what I recently sent to all MLA's as a proposal for RDSPs. "I am an advocate for persons with disabilities including myself and I wish to take this opportunity to speak with you about the Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP). I believe it is one of the most significant programs for people with disabilities and their families in the past 10 years. Even though I am not fully able to make use of it myself, I want to help others. I believe that, as good as it is, there can be significant improvements to this program at the provincial level. I recently spoke with a financial planner who is an expert on both disability issues and the RDSP and he has come up with a unique idea. He suggested to me that any money contributed by the beneficiary of an RDSP shall not count as income. Under current Person With Disability (PWD) benefit rules, a person with a disability is only allowed to earn $800 per month before his or her PWD benefits are clawed back. Allowing people to contribute to their RDSP, over and above the $800 limit and not lose any PWD benefits, would increase there motivation to work where possible. It would: • Also increase people with disabilities’ motivation to seek out work that pays them more than $800 per month. • Break the cycle of poverty that many people with disabilities find themselves in today, • This could be done with no increase in provincial expense. I would encourage you to explore this possibility further as a means to assist people with disabilities at no real cost to the provincial government." Disabilities Advocate 2014-02-08 I wish I say yes, but the ministry knows the exact numbers. The MSDSI website had a fantastic search engine, I used, but it has been changed yet again. All kinds of info was there to be found and now it is gone. What is wrong with sharing knowledge? Change it back please! The figures I used where from people who know the facts, that is all I can tell you. On a first hand basis I know many disabled people and very few are able to work, in an ongoing basis. Disabilities come in two large groups. Stable and Unstable Disabilities. I have unstable conditions, I do not know wheather I will be able to move, one hour from now. I can not enter the workforce, outside of my home, and I can not make deadlines, I am just too unstable.
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